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Thinning blood a memoir of family, myth, and identity

"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-g...

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Main Author: Myers, Leah (Writer) (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Myers, Leah > (Writer)
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.
Clallam Indians > Washington (State) > Jamestown > Biography.
Indians of North America > Washington (State) > Social life and customs.
Indians of North America > Washington (State) > History.
Indigenous peoples > America > Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America > Washington (State) > Folklore.
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Folk tales.
Myths.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: A Lineage
  • Part I: Bear
  • A legend of the Bear Mother
  • Real live Indians
  • An annotated guide to anti-native slurs
  • Bear's decision
  • Part II: Salmon
  • A legend of Salmon Woman
  • Roots
  • Skinwalker
  • Native enough
  • Salmon's memory
  • Part III. Hummingbird
  • A legend of Hummingbird
  • Portrait of a perfect native
  • A writer who can't read
  • Hummingbird's movement
  • Part IV: 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.

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