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Echoes of Celilo Falls and Native Voices in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
- Mosaic: an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Mosaic, an interdisciplinary critical journal
- Volume 50, Number 2, June 2017
- pp. 117-132
- 10.1353/mos.2017.a663693
- Article
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Approaching Ken Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest with a focus on Bromden and his relationship to Celilo Falls reveals a deeper portrait of Bromden's identity and motivations. Milos Forman's adaptation of Cuckoo's Nest, however, eliminates Celilo and its role in Bromden's identity, leaving viewers without context for his silence.