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.<br /><br />Greg Sarris weaves together stories from Mabel McKay's life with an account of how he tried, and she resisted, telling her story...
In the tradition of Calvino's <i>Italian Folktales</i>, Greg Sarris, author of the award-winning novel <i>Grand Avenue</i>, turns his attention to his ancestral homeland of Sonoma Mountain in Northern California. In sixteen interconnected original stories, the twin crows Question Woman and Answer Woman take us through a world unlike yet oddly reminiscent of our own: one which blooms bright with poppies, lupines, and clover; one in which Waterbug kidnaps an entire...
