1. The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay: Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Prologue: Peeling Potatoes 1
4. PART ONE. LESSONS FROM MABEL MCKAY: THE ORAL EXPERIENCE
5. 1. The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay: Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique 17
6. 2. The Woman Who Loved a Snake: Orality in Mabel McKay's Stories 35
7. PART TWO. ABOUT POMO BASKETS AND SECRET CULTS: CULTURAL PHENOMENA
8. 3. A Culture under Glass: The Pomo Basket 51
9. 4. Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets: The Bole Maru as American Indian Religious Resistance 63
10. PART THREE. HEARING THE OLD ONES TALK: THE LITERATE EXPERIENCE
11. 5. Reading Narrated American Indian Lives: Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies of Three Pomo Women 79
12. 6. Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine as Home Medicine 115
13. PART FOUR. KEEPING SLUG WOMAN ALIVE: CLASSROOM PRACTICES
14. 7. Storytelling in the Classroom: Crossing Vexed Chasms 149
15. 8. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom 169
16. Works Cited 201
17. Index 207