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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-206) and index
