Mabel McKay weaving the dream

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.

Record details

ISBN: 0520955226 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 9780520955226 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: 1 online resource (181 pages).
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electronic resource
Publisher: Berkerley : University of California Press, 2013.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Multi-User. Description based upon print version of record.
Formatted Contents Note:	Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Sarah Taylor's Granddaughter; Carnivals, Madams, and Mixed-Up Indian Doctors; Medicine Woman; Prayer Basket