Cowardice, Shell Shock, Combat Fatigue, Combat Stress Reaction (CSR), War Neurosis, Acute Stress Reaction, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are just a few titles describing the extreme psychological changes occurring in combat veterans who have endured long periods of service as combat line troops since the advent of long-range artillery and rifle shooting. Native Americans were used and discarded by a government tasked with taking their tribal lands and asking them to serve in World War II through conscription. Tayo's success recreated in him a sense of purpose and a new connection with his mother's people after purging his body of the horrors of war he experienced and repairing the tear of Ts'its'tsi'nako , the canvas of the Thought-Woman torn apart by destruction. of the White Man's conquest and his world war represented by his quest led by the shaman Betonie, only then will he reconcile his past with the present and open the proverbial doors to his future. A twisted and twisted childhood: Tayo, the half-breed neither his unknown father's people nor his mother's Laguna people wanted him; it represented the evil destruction wrought by the white man's greed on the people of the desert; who took, without any regard for the "mother", the rape and plunder of the earth, destroying her offspring to feed the armies of Mexican and white workers, taking from the earth trees, minerals and killing her animals. Tayo's early years were horrible living in cardboard and tin shacks – when his mother wouldn't sell her body and soul for a bottle of alcohol. “They found their own place to sleep because the men stayed until dawn. Before they could walk, children learned to avoid fists and feet” (Silko, 100 years old). ......middle of paper ......the plant of light; Finally, he entered the kiva and told the story to the tribal elders, a story that was not quite finished. “It took a long time to tell them the story; they frequently stopped him to ask him questions about the place and time of day; they asked her where she was from and the color of her eyes. It was while he was sitting there, facing southeast, that he noticed how the four windows along the south wall of the kiva had a special relationship to this position of the late autumn sun. (Silko, 238). Tayo found peace with the completion of his part of the story as he repaired the canvas; in doing so, his tainted past was reconciled with his present and the future became brighter because he knew he would find her again, Ts'eh with hazel green eyes. Works Cited Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. Penguin Books, London. 2006. Print.