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Silko, Leslie Marmon.  "Landscape, History, and the Pueblo Imagination," Antaeus 57 (Autumn 1986), 882-894.

This short essay concerns the place of landscape and history in Pueblo culture and spirituality.  Silko's discussion of landscape as all-inclusive and inherently interdependent is particularly worthy of consideration in cultural landscape studies.  Landscape holds the power to connect the people with the ritual-mythic world (spirituality). It also, according to Silko, informs storytelling (and therefore history), in which place is often more important than time.  Silko also addresses history-telling and -keeping as a collaborative and dynamic process in which narrative plays a central role.  In that vein, Silko's essay is a story, complete with anecdotes and allegories. [S. Dangelas.]