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Date: June 1st, 2007

Read the Ethnography of Reading

1 June, 2007 (22:12) | reviews | No comments

Of all the articles in the book, Keeping Slug Woman Alive: The Challenge of Reading in a Reservation Classroom by Greg Sarris is the most interesting. This essay examines the difficulties of making reading a culturally significant activity through the description of an attempt to do so on the Kashaya Reservation in California.