TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myers,Leah
TI  - Thinning blood: memoir of family, myth, and identity 
SN  - 1324036702
AV  - E99 .C82 M94 2023 
U1  - 979.700497 23
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, N.Y.
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Myers, Leah.
KW  - Myers, Leah
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - Clallam Indians
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - History
KW  - Washington (State)
KW  - Jamestown
KW  - Biography
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Indigenous peoples
KW  - Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
N1  - Bear. A legend of the Bear Mother -- Real live Indians -- An annotated guide to anti-Native slurs -- Bear's decision -- Salmon. A legend of Salmon Woman -- Roots -- Skinwalker -- Native enough -- Salmon's memory -- Hummingbird. A legend of Hummingbird -- Portrait of a perfect Native -- A writer who can't read -- Hummingbird's movement -- Raven. A legend of Raven stealing the sunlight -- Unreported violence -- Scalping knife turned scalpel -- A letter to my seventh-generation descendant -- The sound of the end -- Raven's emergence
N2  - "Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven.  As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. Throughout, she tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her 'culture is being bleached out,' offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds: her naïve childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager....Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong
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