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

Sarris, Greg. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0520080068 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780520080065 (alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0520080076 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780520080072 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: vi, 214 pages ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-206) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Pomo Indians > Folklore.
Miwok Indians > Folklore.
Folk literature, Indian > History and criticism.
Oral tradition.
Storytelling.

Available copies

  • 2 of 2 copies available at Northwest Indian College.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 2 total copies.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Lummi Library E 99 .P65 S27 1993 255411 Stacks Available -
Lummi Library E 99 .P65 S27 1993 282013 Stacks Reshelving -

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