Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature carries her people’s past within

carries her people’s past within her memories

an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg

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is comprised of four substantive chapters devoted to creating a political and institutional framework enabling Canada’s First Peoples to be at the same time Indigenous Nationals and Canadian citizens

hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different life than the one she had

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature carries her people’s past withinA vibrant new voice blends Native folklore and the search for identity in a fierce debut work of personal history. Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown SKlallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribes strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers, determined to leave a record of her family history, excavates the stories of four generations of women. Beginning with her great grandmother, the last full