Greg Sarris is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is editor of Rattles and Clappers: An Anthology of California Indian Writing (1993) and author of a forthcoming collection of short stories, Grand Avenue.

"An interesting addition to the growing body of literature about America's indigenous peoples, their cultures and their literatures—written and otherwise."

• Prologue: Peeling PotatoesPART ONE. LESSONS FROM MABEL MCKAY:THE ORAL EXPERIENCE1. The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay:Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique2. The Woman Who Loved a Snake:Orality in Mabel McKay's StoriesPART TWO. ABOUT POMO BASKETS ANDSECRET CULTS: CULTURAL PHENOMENA3. A Culture under Glass: The Porno Basket4. Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets: The BoleMaru as American Indian Religious ResistancePART THREE. HEARING THE OLD ONES TALK:THE LITERATE EXPERIENCE5. Reading Narrated American Indian Lives:Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies ofThree Pomo Women6. Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine asHome MedicinePART FOUR. KEEPING SLUG WOMAN ALIVE:CLASSROOM PRACTICES7. Storytelling in the Classroom:Crossing Vexed Chasms8. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge ofReading in a Reservation ClassroomWorks CitedIndex

Greg Sarris is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is editor of Rattles and Clappers: An Anthology of California Indian Writing (1993) and author of a forthcoming collection of short stories, Grand Avenue.

"An interesting addition to the growing body of literature about America's indigenous peoples, their cultures and their literatures—written and otherwise."

• Prologue: Peeling PotatoesPART ONE. LESSONS FROM MABEL MCKAY:THE ORAL EXPERIENCE1. The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay:Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique2. The Woman Who Loved a Snake:Orality in Mabel McKay's StoriesPART TWO. ABOUT POMO BASKETS ANDSECRET CULTS: CULTURAL PHENOMENA3. A Culture under Glass: The Porno Basket4. Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets: The BoleMaru as American Indian Religious ResistancePART THREE. HEARING THE OLD ONES TALK:THE LITERATE EXPERIENCE5. Reading Narrated American Indian Lives:Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies ofThree Pomo Women6. Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine asHome MedicinePART FOUR. KEEPING SLUG WOMAN ALIVE:CLASSROOM PRACTICES7. Storytelling in the Classroom:Crossing Vexed Chasms8. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge ofReading in a Reservation ClassroomWorks CitedIndex

Greg Sarris is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is editor of Rattles and Clappers: An Anthology of California Indian Writing (1993) and author of a forthcoming collection of short stories, Grand Avenue.

"An interesting addition to the growing body of literature about America's indigenous peoples, their cultures and their literatures—written and otherwise."

• Prologue: Peeling PotatoesPART ONE. LESSONS FROM MABEL MCKAY:THE ORAL EXPERIENCE1. The Verbal Art of Mabel McKay:Talk as Culture Contact and Cultural Critique2. The Woman Who Loved a Snake:Orality in Mabel McKay's StoriesPART TWO. ABOUT POMO BASKETS ANDSECRET CULTS: CULTURAL PHENOMENA3. A Culture under Glass: The Porno Basket4. Telling Dreams and Keeping Secrets: The BoleMaru as American Indian Religious ResistancePART THREE. HEARING THE OLD ONES TALK:THE LITERATE EXPERIENCE5. Reading Narrated American Indian Lives:Elizabeth Colson's Autobiographies ofThree Pomo Women6. Reading Louise Erdrich: Love Medicine asHome MedicinePART FOUR. KEEPING SLUG WOMAN ALIVE:CLASSROOM PRACTICES7. Storytelling in the Classroom:Crossing Vexed Chasms8. Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge ofReading in a Reservation ClassroomWorks CitedIndex