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Sarris, Greg was born on February 12, 1952 in Santa rosa, California, United States. Son of Emilio Arthur Hilario and Mary Bernadette Hartman.
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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 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, 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.
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Grand Avenue, a street in the center of the northern California town of Santa Rosa where "everybody's connected to everybody, " is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside of the reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world. Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the Native Americans from the core of these stories - tales full of cures, poison, family healing rituals, and a kind of humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace. A teenage girl falls in love with a crippled horse marked for slaughter . . . an aging healer summons his strength for one final song . . . a father seeks a bond with his illegitimate son . . . a mother searches for the power to care for her cancer-stricken daughter's spirit. Here is a tapestry of lives rendered with the color, wisdom, and quest for meaning of the traditional tale-telling in which they are rooted. Vibrant with the emotions and realities of a changing world, these stories are all equally stunning and from the heart.
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This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rare perspective on the issue of cross-cultural communication. Greg Sarris is concerned with American Indian texts, both oral and written, as well as with other American Indian cultural phenomena such as basketry and religion. His essays cover a range of topics that include orality, art, literary criticism, and pedagogy, and demonstrate that people can see more than just "what things seem to be." Throughout, he asks: How can we read across cultures so as to encourage communication rather than to close it down? Sarris maintains that cultural practices can be understood only in their living, changing contexts. Central to his approach is an understanding of storytelling, a practice that embodies all the indeterminateness, structural looseness, multivalence, and richness of culture itself. He describes encounters between his Indian aunts and Euro-American students and the challenge of reading in a reservation classroom; he brings the reports of earlier ethnographers out of museums into the light of contemporary literary and anthropological theory. Sarris's perspective is exceptional: son of a Coast Miwok/Pomo father and a Jewish mother, he was raised by Mabel McKay—a renowned Cache Creek Pomo basketweaver and medicine woman—and by others, Indian and non-Indian, in Santa Rosa, California. Educated at Stanford, he is now a university professor and recently became Chairman of the Federated Coast Miwok tribe. His own story is woven into these essays and provides valuable insights for anyone interested in cross-cultural communication, including educators, theorists of language and culture, and general readers.
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Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern California town of Santa Rosa. One stretch of it is home not only to Pomo Indians making a life outside the reservation but also to Mexicans, blacks, and some Portuguese, all trying to find their way among the many obstacles in their turbulent world. Bound together by a lone ancestor, the lives of the American Indians form the core of these stories—tales of healing cures, poison, family rituals, and a humor that allows the inhabitants of Grand Avenue to see their own foibles with a saving grace. A teenage girl falls in love with a crippled horse marked for slaughter. An aging healer summons her strength for one final song. A father seeks a bond with his illegitimate son. A mother searches for the power to care for her cancer-stricken daughter’s spirit. Here is a tapestry of lives rendered with the color, wisdom, and a quest for meaning that are characteristic of the traditional storytelling in which they are rooted, a tradition Sarris grew up hearing and learning. Vibrant with the emotions and realities of a changing world, these narratives—the basis of an HBO miniseries—are all equally stunning and from the heart.
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( A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman,...)
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 straightthe 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. Sarris’s new preface, written expressly for this edition, meditates on Mabel McKay’s enduring legacy and the continued importance of her teachings.
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Sarris, Greg was born on February 12, 1952 in Santa rosa, California, United States. Son of Emilio Arthur Hilario and Mary Bernadette Hartman.
Bachelor, University of California at Los Angeles, 1978; Master of Arts, Stanford University, 1981, 88; Doctor of Philosophy, Stanford University, 1989.
He was chosen in 2005 to fill the Endowed Chair in Native American Studies at Sonoma State University. The Chair was endowed by his tribe. He was formerly the Fletcher Jones Professor of Creative Writing and Literature at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, and a full professor at University of California, Los Angeles for ten years.
After finding the family of Emilio Hilario, Sarris began to claim that Hilario"s father, Emiliano Hilario, who was Filipino, told him that his maternal great great grandparents were Tom and Emily Smith.
Other family members dispute this claim. Official government records however, indicate that Sarris" maternal great great grandparents were Joseph Peter Stewart, a barber from Pennsylvania and Emily B. (Skanks) Stewart of Maine.
Both were African-American. The family has been traced back to 1799.
Mary Bernadette "Bunny" Hartman, of Irish and German-Jewish descent, was his mother.
He was adopted by a local couple, George and Mary Sarris. Sarris attended local schools through Santa Rosa Junior College, and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1978 from University of California, Los Angeles, where he also played football. He worked in Hollywood as a model and actor before going to graduate school.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in modern thought and literature at Stanford University in 1988, and returned to University of California, Los Angeles to teach in 1989.
He co-produced an Home Box Office movie, Grand Avenue with Robert Redford in 1996. Sarris serves as Chairman of, a federally recognized Indian tribe with offices in Rohnert Park, California.
(Grand Avenue, a street in the center of the northern Cali...)
( A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman,...)
( A world-renowned Pomo basket weaver and medicine woman,...)
(In a powerful follow-up to his widely acclaimed short sto...)
(In the tradition of Louise Erdrich and Sherman Alexie com...)
( This remarkable collection of eight essays offers a rar...)
( Grand Avenue runs through the center of the Northern Ca...)
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Chief, Federated Coast Miwok Indian Tribe, Santa Rosa, California, 1993-1994, 94-95, 98—. Honorary president Word for Word Theatre Company, since 1995. Active First Americans in the Arts, since 1995.
Member Screenwriters Guild, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association-West, Authors Guild.