Greg Sarris - The Forgetters: Stories - with Tanya Thrasher

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Perched atop Gravity Hill, two crow sisters--Question Woman and Answer Woman--recall stories from dawn to dusk. Question Woman cannot remember a single story except by asking to hear it again, and Answer Woman can tell all the stories but cannot think of them unless she is asked. Together they recount the journeys of the Forgetters, so that we may all remember. Unforgettable characters pass through these pages: a boy who opens the clouds in the sky, a young woman who befriends three enigmatic people who might also be animals, two village leaders who hold a storytelling contest. All are in search of a crucial lesson from the past, one that will help them repair the rifts in their own lives.
Told in the classic style of Southern Pomo and Coast Miwok creation stories, this book vaults from the sacred time before this time to the recent present and even the near future. Heralded as a "a fine storyteller" by Joy Harjo, Greg Sarris offers us these tales in a new genre of his own making. The Forgetters is an astonishment--comforting and startling, inspiring reveries and deepening our love of the world we share.
Greg Sarris is currently serving his sixteenth term as Chairman of the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria and his first term as board chair for the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. He is a member of the Board of Regents of the University of California. His publications include Keeping Slug Woman Alive (1993), Grand Avenue (1994, reissued 2015 and adapted for film on HBO), Watermelon Nights (1998, reissued 2021), How a Mountain Was Made (2017), and Becoming Story (2022). Greg lives and works in Sonoma County, California. Visit his website at greg-sarris.com.
Sarris is in conversation with Tanya Thrasher (Cherokee Nation), Publications Manager for the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian and Editor-in-Chief of American Indian Magazine. She is co-editor of The Land Has Memory: Indigenous Knowledge, Native Landscapes, and the National Museum of the American Indian.
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