You do not need to answer all the questions in the first section or respond to all the prompts in the second section. However, you should read through it and respond when you feel that you need to think more deeply about the meaning of the text.

1) What does Silko mean by landscape, and how is the Pueblo conception of landscape different from the common English definition?
2) How is our concept of waste different from the Pueblo’s concept?
3) Why was there treatment of waste so different from ours?
4) How does our contemporary concept of the landscape help explain our civilization’s unhealthy relationship toward waste?
5) Why do the Pueblos seem to have a more healthy and sustainable relationship to the landscape?
6) Is there anything to gain today from understanding the tribal knowledge of this continent’s Native American past and present?
7) Looking at Snyder’s “Language Goes Two Ways” and Silko’s “Landscape,” discuss the similarities between Snyder’s concept of the “field of the world” and the Pueblo’s concept of “landscape.”
8) Discuss do Snyder and Silko understand the importance of natural communication and art in creating possibilities for self-realization and communal identity?
9) Have we lost touch with wild language?
10) After reading Silko’s “Landscape” and Snyder’s “Language” and the Wordsworth poems, discuss how imagination and creativity might help our society to think about the landscape in a way that might improve our knowledge about the way the world is while also increasing humanity’s chances of survival.