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092			_aMYERS, L. _bM996
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aMyers, Leah _c(Writer), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aThinning blood : _ba memoir of family, myth, and identity / _cLeah Myers.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N. Y. : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2023]
300			_a163 pages : _billustrations, genealogical table ; _c22 cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
336			_astill image _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aNamed 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.
520			_a"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"-- _cProvided by publisher
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 159-163).
600	1	0	_aMyers, Leah _c(Writer)
651		0	_aJamestown S'Klallam Tribe.
650		0	_aClallam Indians _zWashington (State) _zJamestown _xBiography.
650		0	_aIndians of North America _zWashington (State) _xSocial life and customs.
650		0	_aIndians of North America _zWashington (State) _xHistory.
650		0	_aIndians of North America _xEthnic identity. _934937
650		0	_aIndians of North America _zWashington (State) _xFolklore.
655		7	_aAutobiographies. _2lcgft _9728
655		7	_aBiographies. _2lcgft _9870
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