TY  - BOOK
AU  - Myers,Leah
TI  - Thinning blood: a memoir of family, myth, and identity 
SN  - 9781324036708
PY  - 2023///]
CY  - New York, N. Y.
PB  - W. W. Norton & Company
KW  - Myers, Leah
KW  - Clallam Indians
KW  - Washington (State)
KW  - Jamestown
KW  - Biography
KW  - Indians of North America
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - History
KW  - Ethnic identity
KW  - Folklore
KW  - Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Biographies
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-163); 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 women -- 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
N2  - Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions A 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 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"--
ER  -