Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

by Leah Myers

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1324036702
• ISBN13: 9781324036708
• Release Date: May 2023
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"