Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Wampum and looks back at the

and looks back at the beauty and the pain of her long life

Nadya Kwandibens

understood to be the outcome of a specific society

is Kiowa on her mother's side and Sephardic on her father's side

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Wampum and looks back at theA 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