{"product_id":"mabel-mckay-weaving-the-dream-paperback","title":"Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGreg Sarris\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGreg 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. Beautifully narrated, \u003ci\u003eWeaving the Dream\u003c\/i\u003e initiates the reader into Pomo culture and demonstrates how a woman who worked most of her life in a cannery could become a great healer and an artist whose baskets were collected by the Smithsonian.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHearing Mabel McKay's life story, we see that distinctions between material and spiritual and between mundane and magical disappear. What remains is a timeless way of healing, of making art, and of being in the world. Sarris's new preface, written expressly for this edition, meditates on Mabel McKay's enduring legacy and the continued importance of her teachings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWonderful, and urgently needed in these days of confusion over Native American identity and spirituality. . . . Vibrant testimony to the survival of American Indians and the power of the old spirits.--Leslie Marmon Silko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAll the lean wit of a Castaneda tale, the lyric spark of the Black Elk translations, \u003ci\u003eWeaving the Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern-day Indian classic.--Kenneth Lincoln, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Red Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eWonderful, and urgently needed in these days of confusion over Native American identity and spirituality. . . . Vibrant testimony to the survival of American Indians and the power of the old spirits.--Leslie Marmon Silko\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"All the lean wit of a Castaneda tale, the lyric spark of the Black Elk translations, \u003ci\u003eWeaving the Dream\u003c\/i\u003e is a modern-day Indian classic.\"--Kenneth Lincoln, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Good Red Road\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePart American Indian, Filipino, and Jewish, \u003cb\u003eGreg Sarris\u003c\/b\u003e was adopted at birth and raised in both Indian and white families. He is Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. His books include \u003ci\u003eKeeping Slug Woman Alive: Essays Toward a Holistic Approach to American Indian Texts\u003c\/i\u003e (California, 1993), \u003ci\u003eWatermelon Nights\u003c\/i\u003e (1998), \u003ci\u003eGrand Avenue\u003c\/i\u003e (1994), and \u003ci\u003eThe Sound of Rattles and Clappers: An Anthology of California Indian Writing\u003c\/i\u003e (1994).\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 182\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 4.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 04, 2013\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45390933753958,"sku":"9780520275881","price":38.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/dHMzNXJmTHlaL1BXVTJTU1NNNmZTQT09.webp?v=1775127007","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/mabel-mckay-weaving-the-dream-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}