{"product_id":"mabel-mckay-weaving-the-dream-revised","title":"Mabel McKay: Weaving the Dream (Revised)","description":"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.\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.","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51987809730791,"sku":"9780520275881","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_ad69fa1b-42d5-4e88-acbd-001bb534dc46.jpg?v=1776396899","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/mabel-mckay-weaving-the-dream-revised","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}