Status Updates From Almanac of the Dead

Sometimes I’m like time to read a bunch of this and make some progress and I read five pages that squash me into dirt

"After the riots and Vietnam War, there had been no more university funding for black studies classes. That was no accident. The powers who controlled the United States didn't want the people to know their history. If they people knew their history, they would realize they must rise up."

If the people had not retold the stories, or if the stories had somehow been lost, then the people were lost; the ancestors' spirits were summoned by the stories. This man Marx had understood that the stories or 'histories' are sacred; that within 'history' reside relentless forces, powerful spirits, vengeful, relentlessly seeking justice.

Still reading this. It just requires slow attention. Silko is a master of character.

[she] had never like to look at [his] face, which was pasty white and had no chin. His pale blue eyes had always had the shine of a true believer in the white race. Arizona had been overrun by poor whites like [him]. So while [she] avoided looking at his face, she always studied the rest of him, and of course the first thing her eyes caught was the .45 automatic.