In Native American literature, there is a discourse that solely focuses on the relationship between Indigenous people and the land. This relationship is vital to understanding the traditions, rituals, storytelling, and practices of Native Americans. The presence of settler colonialism changes the relationship, effectively changing the nature of cultural and spiritual relationships as well. Indigenous literature provides examples of the modern relationship Native people have with their land; an example of this is Leslie Marmon Silko’s Ceremony and Tommy Orange’s There There Despite modernity, assimilation, and ways of life introduced by settler colonialism, Native people maintain a relationship to the land, whether on a reservation or in an urban space. The relationship, as well as their traditions and rituals, changes between Ceremony and There There. This research aims to illuminate the relationship in conjunction with the concepts of cultural hybridity, sovereignty, and a third space.
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