In what ways does Leslie Marmon Silko represent John Dewey's theory of "art as experience" in her work Ceremony?

Trying to link Dewey's analysis of art and experience to
any work will take much more than the space allotted here.  This should be stated on the
outset.  If we are looking for broad strokes, I think that one of the first locations to
be asserted would be the notion of how art represents nature as experienced by the
artist.  Silko's work picks up on Native American identity at a point in American
consciousness where erasure is a distinct possibility.  The events and themes brought
out in Silko's work helps to bring the idea that Native American identity in American
society has to be reasserted and revisited.  In this way, the construction of art is an
experience that has to resonate in the mind of the reader.  Silko's work and how it
reflects Native American society, in particular how different this is from what American
society has become, is something that the reader has to absorb and apply in a reciprocal
manner to their own setting.  For Dewey, this triadic relationship constitutes the basis
of how art is an experience in that the artist, the art, and the audience all share in
the communication experience.