Keeping Slug Woman alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts /
Greg Sarris.
- Berkeley : University of California Press, �1993.
- 1 online resource (vi, 214 pages)
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.
English.
9780520913066 052091306X 0585129592 9780585129594
Pomo Indians--Folklore. Miwok Indians--Folklore. Folk literature, Indian--History and criticism. Oral tradition. Storytelling. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Folklore & Mythology. Folk literature, Indian. Miwok Indians. Oral tradition. Pomo Indians. Storytelling. Ethnic & Race Studies. Gender & Ethnic Studies. Social Sciences.
Electronic books. Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Folklore.