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Greg Sarris

Pomo
Miwok

Greg Sarris is Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has written about the lives and stories of Native people in the Southwest and West. He is also an elected chief of the Coast Miwok Nation.

 

Online resources by or about Greg Sarris:

English at UCLA: Gregory Sarris
Author: UCLA
Type: authorbio
Description: Short biography of Sarris.
URL: http://www.english.ucla.edu/faculty/sarris/index.html
Miwok Author Credit Elders
Author: Miriam Silver
Type: authorbio
Description: An article about Greg Sarris from the 2/10/01 issue of Canku Ota - A Newsletter Celebrating Native America.
URL: http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co02102001/CO_02102001_Miwok.htm

Books by Greg Sarris:

Sarris, Greg. Grand Avenue
New York : Hyperion, 1994.
Description: 229 p.
Includes geneal. table ; 22 cm. Includes: The Magic Pony - The Progress of This Disease - Slaughterhouse - Waiting for the Green Frog - Joy Ride - How I got to be Queen - Sam Toms's Last Song - The Indian Maid - Secret Letters - The Water Place.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0786860170
Sarris, Greg. Keeping Slug Woman Alive : a holistic approach to American Indian texts
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
Genre: Nonfiction
Description: 214 p. ; 24cm.
Pomo Indians--Folklore. Miwok Indians--Folklore. Folk literature, Indian--History and criticism. Oral tradition. Storytelling.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 080068
Sarris, Greg. Mabel McKay : weaving the dream
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1994.
Genre: Biography
Description: Series : Portraits of American Genius Series, Volume 1. Story of world-renowned Pomo basketweaver and medicine woman Mabel McKay. 165 p. ; 21 cm.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0520086120
Sarris, Greg. The Sound of rattles and clappers : a collection of new California Indian writing
Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 1994.
Genre: Anthologies
Description: 161 p. ; 24 cm
California--Literary collections. American literature--Indian authors. American literature--20th century.
Audience: Adult
ISBN: 0816512809
Sarris, Greg. Watermelon nights : a novel
New York : Hyperion, 1998.
Genre: Fiction
Description: 425 p. ; 25 cm.
ISBN: 078686110X
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