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Ballenger, Bruce – College English, 1997
Notes that in Native American storytelling, memory is seen through an already existing story or recognized as a familiar category of experience that is widely shared. Suggests that the implications of the merging of tribal memory and personal memory are profound and that the reach of the storyteller's memory extends beyond his own lifetime, her…
Descriptors: American Indian Culture, Higher Education, Memory, Oral Tradition