Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (PB) Grandparents She is Mojave and an

She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community

Their experiences -- captured in court files

the Inuvialuit Settlement Region

church-run residential school

and the permanence of culture

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (PB) Grandparents She is Mojave and anA 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