Keeping Slug Woman alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts - Sarris, Greg. (Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index.
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Keywords: Pomo Indians -- Folklore; Miwok Indians -- Folklore; Folk literature, Indian -- History and criticism; Oral tradition; Storytelling; Pomo -- Folklore; Miwok -- Folklore; Littérature populaire des Peuples autochtones -- Histoire et critique; Tradition orale; Art de conter; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Folklore & Mythology; Folk literature, Indian; Miwok Indians; Oral tradition; Pomo Indians; Storytelling; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Folklore