EC blog # 9

So the book gets super interesting and I don’t think it really ever ends and I think that’s what Silko wanted. So this is a super long section and I will try to make it short. (not that anyone will read this) Tayo finds the cattle and is able to herd them through the opening he made in the fence. Then he eats it and these two ranchers find him and take him to their truck. Then they notice the mountain lion tracks and leave Tayo to kill the lion. In a way the lion saved Tayo from having to face the ranchers. This shows the connection Tayo has with nature and his roots. Tayo then goes to look for the cattle and he ends up finding this hunter who had killed a deer. The hunter takes Tayo to the Woman Tayo loves, house. There he finds the cattle and his horse. Tayo does not hook up with the woman this time, but it is just a matter of time. Tayo rides back to his house and takes Robert to help him load up the cattle. The cattle have been super well feed and Robert is all happy about that. Tayo takes the cattle and releases them into their grazing grounds where they stay all winter. Tayo has fallen madly in love with this woman and can’t seem to get her off his mind. This is a sign that he is becoming whole because he is able to carry on a relationship on a deeper level. When the weather becomes warmer he goes out to look after the cattle and he just happens to find the woman!!! We learn that her name is Ts’eh and she is a Montano, which apparently this tribe has some kind of history the reader does not learn about. Anyways she collects all these herbs and different kinds of plants and tells Tayo to finish the ceremony and to run away and hide because Emo has told all these lies that Tayo is crazy and that a lot of people will be looking for him. So Tayo runs away and finds Harley and Leroy driving by. They are both drunk and Tayo follows shortly. They take him to meet up with Emo while Tayo is passed out but Tayo runs into the mountains of this old government experiment site where they tested the first nuclear bomb. Tayo hides behind some rocks as Emo and Pinkie kill Harley. The place where Tayo is, is the place Betonie said the final part of the ceremony would take place and Tayo says that Emo and Pinkie are the destroyers and are the reason why the Indians are forgetting that they created the evil in the world. So Tayo runs away and collects the plants Ts’eh asked him to and then goes to see old Ku’oosh where they perform a ceremony on him and tells them all about the ceremony he completed. I think that Ts’eh is a god because she seems mythical and the old men made it seem like she was a higher being. Then Emo kills Pinkie “by accident” and is forced to leave the reservation and the book ends. I guess Emo leaving is a symbol for the evil to have left from the reservation and now the reservation can become more holy again.