Ceremony

Tayo went on a journey to go find the cattle that have "run away". He goes by himself and on his way he thinks about the past, the war, his family and the white man. Tayo comes to the realization that he didn't believe that white men would be thieves and his first thought when he was trying to find his cattle was that some Mexican or Indian had stolen them and traded them to white people. Deep down he knows that white people are just as thieving and deceitful as everyone else, maybe even more so. White people came and took the land from the Indians and devoured their land and took the minerals from the earth.

I think it's interesting to have a differing perspective on Western education and practices. Tayo was raised going to a white school where science and math was taught and believing that white people where kind of superior in intellect and practices and then he realizes that white people were no different than everyone else. White people cheated and took advantage of things when they could just like everyone else and Tayo was just now realizing it.