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Sarris, Greg.

Keeping Slug Woman alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts / Greg Sarris.

Berkeley : University of California Press, ©1993.

vi, 214 pages ; 24 cm

The author interviewed renowned Cache Creek Pomo Indian basketweaver and medicine woman Mabel McKay as the basis for his cross-cultural essays that concern American Indian texts, oral and written, and other cultural phenomena, such as art, basketry, pedagogy, and religion.

Pomo Indians -- Folklore.

Miwok Indians -- Folklore.

Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism.

Oral tradition.

Storytelling.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.

Prologue : peeling potatoes -- The verbal art of Mabel McKay : talk as culture contact and cultural critique -- The woman who loved a snake : orality in Mabel McKay's stories -- A culture under glass : the Pomo basket -- Telling dreams and keeping secrets : the Bole Maru as American Indian religious resistance -- Reading narrated American Indian lives : Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of three Pomo women -- Reading Louise Erdrich : Love medicine as home medicine -- Storytelling in the classroom : crossing vexed chasms -- Keeping Slug Woman alive : the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom.

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