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Myers, Leah (Writer), author.
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Myers, Leah (Writer)
Clallam Indians -- Washington (State) -- Jamestown -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Social life and customs.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- History.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Folklore.
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.
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Thinning blood : a memoir of family, myth, and identity / Leah Myers.
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Myers, Leah (Writer), author.
New York, N.Y. : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
Subjects
Myers, Leah (Writer)
Clallam Indians -- Washington (State) -- Jamestown -- Biography.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Social life and customs.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- History.
Indians of North America -- Ethnic identity.
Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- Folklore.
Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe.
ISBN:
9781324036708 (hardcover) :
1324036702 (hardcover)
Description:
163 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 22 cm
Edition:
First edition.
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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"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Hawaii State Library
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979.70049 Myers My
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