The Laguna Pueblo are a Native American people that, according to
             Silko in Yellow Woman and a Beauty of Spirit, "embrace the whole of
             creation and the whole of history and time" (49). In this essay and in her
             novel Ceremony, we see that the Laguna are not only connected to nature but
             are part of it. The land and its creatures are their creation, their
             history, and their time. In her essay, Silko writes of this embodiment of
             the land within the identity of the Laguna: "Pueblos haveâ€always been able
             to stay with the land. Our stories cannot be separated from their
             geographical locations, from actual physical places on the land" (58). We
             most clearly see this connection to nature in the story of the protagonist
             In Ceremony we are treated to the homecoming of Tayo, who has been
             away fighting a war in a foreign place. His experiences have distanced him
             from emotion and from his heritage and connection with nature. Tayo's
             barren emotional state and his disconnection from self are mirrored by the
             drought-ridden land which greets his return. Before he can reconnect with
             his lost self, Tayo must reconnect with nature. Tayo eventually begins to
             heal because of experiences that reconnect him with nature. One of these
             is when he begins to take care of the apricot tree in Ts'eh's garden. His
             nurturing of the tree shows he is beginning to care again. He is
             reconnecting his disconnected emotional self through extending care toward
             others, particularly nature. Like Tayo in his adolescence, the apricot
             tree is made by a storm, "vulnerable with leaves that caught snow and held
             it in drifts until the branches dragged the ground" (Silko 208).
             Tayo will also reconnect with nature through his love relationship.
             However, when Tayo makes love his lover is in the form of nature imagery,
             such as the Night Swan. When Tayo meets his lover h
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