Tayo and his cousin Rocky grew up together practically as brothers and attended a school where they were taught by white people. Oddly enough, it was Rocky who denounced Native American traditions and wanted to leave the community and “win in the white outside world” (Silko 47). Tayo believed and followed traditions such as covering the deer's head after hunting, as well as other Native American traditions that Rocky, a full-blooded Native American, declared to be superstition. Tayo, being half white, could have as easily as Rocky worked for a place in town with white men, but because of his mixed identity, Tayo always considered himself an outsider. He felt even less comfortable around white men because he had grown up in Native American culture and