This is the first page of a letter from the Leslie Marmon Silko archive at the Beinecke (I’ll upload the second page following this post) by Silko to a Tuscon venue protesting the security checks she’s been subjected to in her regular attendance. Silko calls out what she calls the “death squad impersonators” who searched her, and asks whether she’s being stopped because she is “a woman who is not Caucasian, and not dressed like a Yuppie.” Silko signs her letter, “Sincerely, Leslie Marmon Silko, a novelist and rabble-rouser.” I’ll upload part 2 following this post.