Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius

Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius Book 1)

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 straightâ‚¬"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, Weaving the Dream 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.

Hearing 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. Sarrisâ‚¬s new preface, written expressly for this edition, meditates on Mabel McKayâ‚¬s enduring legacy and the continued importance of her teachings.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2013-02-03
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2013-02-03
Format	Kindle eBook

Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Portraits of American Genius Book 1)