Ceremony in the healing process
Ceremony in the Healing Process When Tayo returns from the war, he is troubled in many ways. ... Once back on the reservation it is determined Tayo should undergo a ceremony to heal him. A local medicine man, Ku’oosh, uses traditional ceremony to try and heal Tayo. ... When you kill someone, you must perform a ceremony to cleanse your body. Ku’oosh hopes this ceremony will cleanse Tayo’s mind and body. ... When the ceremony is not working, Ku’oosh realizes that the ceremony is not modern enough. He didn’t have a ceremony that was made to handle problems caused by the influence of white culture. The ceremony failed, and referring to long term affects on their people as a whole, Ku’oosh worried what would happen to the Laguana people if a cure was not found. ... The old ceremony would not work.