The Basket Woman: A Book of Indian Tales

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Cocky young glaciers, contemplative pine trees, resourceful ancient Paiutes, and rabbits too clever for their own good. Through the kindly but mysterious Basket Woman, they all become the companions and teachers of Alan, the young son of homesteaders in early Nevada. The Basket Woman, a keeper of her people's traditions, doesn't simply tell stories: She transports her young friend into powerful mythic tales, where Alan learns the secret of the trees and animals and the wisdom of the people who flourished in this ...
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Cocky young glaciers, contemplative pine trees, resourceful ancient Paiutes, and rabbits too clever for their own good. Through the kindly but mysterious Basket Woman, they all become the companions and teachers of Alan, the young son of homesteaders in early Nevada. The Basket Woman, a keeper of her people's traditions, doesn't simply tell stories: She transports her young friend into powerful mythic tales, where Alan learns the secret of the trees and animals and the wisdom of the people who flourished in this "land of little rain" before the arrival of foreigners from the East. While the stories make delightful and instructive reading for children, on another level they are an intense examination of the dramatic implications of a legacy of conquest upon the land and its native peoples. At eighteen, Mary Austin herself homesteaded in California during a catastrophic drought. These stories were written during her sometimes desperate life as a young mother and wife of a failed water developer in the region east of the Sierra Nevada. The proceeds of their publication in eastern magazines and later as a school text kept Austin's bankrupt family going.
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  • ISBN-13: 9780874173369
  • Publisher: University of Nevada Press
  • Publication date: 3/1/1999
  • Series: Western Literature Series
  • Pages: 136
  • Product dimensions: 5.70 (w) x 8.20 (h) x 0.40 (d)

Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
The Basket Woman - First Story 1
The Basket Woman - Second Story 9
The Stream That Ran Away 16
The Coyote-Spirit and the Weaving Woman 22
The Cheerful Glacier 30
The Merry-Go-Round 36
The Christmas Tree 44
The Fire Bringer 54
The Crooked Fir 60
The Sugar Pine 65
The Golden Fortune 71
The White-Barked Pine 82
Na'Yang-Wit'e, The First Rabbit Drive 87
Mahala Joe 93
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