Silko goes back to a moment in time before her birth to explain the reader the reason why she and her sisters have nothing in common to other girls in the town, in Laguna Pueblo. They were not white girls.
As an Indian girl, Silko explains how white people arrived to Laguna Pueblo and separated Indians offspring from his parents.
Silko is a character that appears in the story "Yellow Woman and the Beauty of Spirit", written by Leslie Marmol.