Mabel McKay : weaving the dream.

By:

Sarris, Greg [author.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Portraits of American genius Mabel McKayPublication details: Berkerley : University of California Press, 2013.Description: 1 online resource (181 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780520955226
0520955226

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Mabel McKayDDC classification:

973.04975 973/.04975

LOC classification:

E99.P65 S29 2013

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Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Sarah Taylor's Granddaughter; Carnivals, Madams, and Mixed-Up Indian Doctors; Medicine Woman; Prayer Basket.

Summary: A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight-the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beauti.

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Print version record.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Sarah Taylor's Granddaughter; Carnivals, Madams, and Mixed-Up Indian Doctors; Medicine Woman; Prayer Basket.

A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman, Mabel McKay expressed her genius through her celebrated baskets, her Dreams, her cures, and the stories with which she kept her culture alive. She spent her life teaching others how the spirit speaks through the Dream, how the spirit heals, and how the spirit demands to be heard. Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story straight-the white people's way. Sarris, an Indian of mixed-blood heritage, finds his own story in his search for Mabel McKay's. Beauti.

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