Deep Hanging Out: Wanderings and Wonderment in Native California by Margolin, Malcolm

A chronicle of fifty years of deep hanging out in California's Indian country!"Deep Hanging Out is a vibrant testament to one man's commitment to nurturing community and dancing with change." --Terry Tempest WilliamsWriter and publisher Malcolm Margolin has been "deep hanging out"--or immersing himself in a social, informal way--in California's Indian country since the 1970s. This volume collects thirty articles, introductions, and other pieces he wrote about California's diverse Indian country (well over one hundred tribes), drawn mainly from the quarterly magazine he cofounded in 1987, News from Native California. He shares with his readers the experiences, knowledge, and cultural renewal that California Indians have generously shared with him, often after years of friendship, from the erection of a ceremonial enclosure in Northern California--built to fall apart within a generation so that the knowledge of how to construct one is always current--to a visit by aboriginal Hawaiians in