Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream

Mabel McKay: Weaving the DreamA 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

She is best known for her extraordinary book Our Democracy and the American Indian (1920) and as a founding member of the Society of American Indians

And most importantly

challenging you to reconsider the world you thought you knew

Because today’s science seems so compelling

Harvard University

This is the uncut (adult) version

For only when we can hear the languages of other beings will we be capable of understanding the generosity of the earth

With the poems in both O'odham and English

playing in the snow in the winter

a poignant journey home to Blueberry Road

He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was born—except they hadn't

But when one of Cash's classmates vanishes without a trace