Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member

an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg

and Noah Sainnawap

- Arnd Schneider

carries her people’s past within her memories

Hale's friendship with John Smoke Johnson and his son George (father of Pauline Johnson) allowed the scholar access to the Mohawk manuscript held by Smoke Johnson

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled memberA 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