Written amidst the rise of Native American movements in the 1970s, Leslie Marmon Silko's Ceremony(1977) provides an alternative nationalism that affirms mixed bloods as subjects of Native American history. Silko's hybrid nationalism, however, still defines women as existing outside history. Reading Ceremony as Silko's literary intervention on her contemporary Native American nationalisms, this article argues that Silko partly succeeds in elaborating a hybrid narration of Native American nations, in which mixed blood subjects emerge as agents of national history and that she ultimately fails to envision a new nationalist model that allows women as national subjects. Silko deliberately opposes her protagonist Tayo's story to the prevailing notion that the Native American tradition is change-free and should be transmitted intact to full-blooded male subjects. While rendering Tayo disruptive to Native American nationalisms under full blood subjects' hegemony, Silko employs the gendered trope of women as nation. In doing so, she unsettles the national boundary that has been essentialized by the notion of national "purity." Silko's hybrid narration of Native American nations involves post-traditionalism that embraces changes and locates contemporary Native America in on-going transformations since World War II. However, it is by representing women as outside of Native American history that Silko achieves her nationalist project of de-essentializing the national boundary.