![]() ![]() Most of the young people in Laguna come to resent the striking disparity between the wealth of American cities and reservation villages. No wonder Tayo feels so much guilt for praying the rain away. That means that drought years, like the ones we see in the novel, are especially hard. The members of the Laguna community don't have a lot of money and mostly rely on ranching and sheep herding to make a living. The Puebloan Native Americans include Hopi, Zuni, and Acoma, as well as Laguna. The Native Americans who live there are one of the 21 different Puebloan peoples who reside in New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona. ![]() ![]() As a part of the Native American reservation system established by the United States' Bureau of Indian Affairs in the second half of the 19th century, Laguna remains segregated from the modern world of white America. Laguna, New Mexico, immediately after World War IIĪt the time this novel is set, in the late 1940s, Laguna is no bustling metropolis. ![]()
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