Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 1 of 402 Editorial Board General Editor A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff University of Illinois at Chicago (emerita) Kimberly Blaeser University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee Brenda J. Child University of Minnesota R. David Edmunds University of Texas at Dallas Clara Sue Kidwell University of Oklahoma Daniel F. Littlefield University of Arkansas Tsianina Lomawaima University of Arizona Gerald Vizenor University of California, Berkeley Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 2 of 402 The Process of a Native American Collaborative Biography By Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands • University of Nebraska Press Lincoln and London Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 3 of 402 © by the University of Nebraska Press All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Rios, Theodore. Telling a good one: the process of a Native American collaborative biography / Theodore Rios and Kathleen Mullen Sands. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. --- (cloth : alk. paper) – --- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Autobiography – Authorship . Biography as a literary form. . Authorship – Collaboration. . Rios, Theodore. . Sands, Kathleen M., –. . Tohono O’Odham Indians – Biography. . Arizona – Biography. . Sands, Kathleen M., – . Title. . '.–dc - Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 4 of 402 In memory of For Nina Marlene and Johannes Raymond • Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 5 of 402 Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 6 of 402 List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xvii Introduction Theories of Inscribing Collaborative Personal Narrative Collaborative Life Story as Literary Expression Native American Collaborative Personal Narrative Papago Personal Narratives More Than OneWay to Tell ‘‘A Good One’’ Personal-Narrative Performance, Storytelling, and Audience Life-Story Structure and Context The Poetics and Politics of Collaborative Personal Narrative Epilogue Appendix: Editing Interview Transcripts into Narrative Notes Bibliography Index Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 7 of 402 Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 8 of 402 Rios Family Tree following page Papago adobe house Ted Rios during an interview San Xavier Mission with women in foreground Ted Rios Papago women at a well Papagos traveling by wagon Nun scolding Papago boy Phoenix Indian School Pit mining at Ajo Papago cowboys Ted Rios Children’s Shrine San Xavier village Mine tailings Papago women with pottery The Papago Reservation and Surrounding Area xxii Tseng 2000.8.25 17:43 OCV:0 6145 Rios / TELLING A GOOD ONE / sheet 9 of 402