02546cam a2200337 4500 913458306 TxAuBib 20230802120000.0 ||||||s2023||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9798350821819 43b23d04-d07b-4866-949a-e7bf6028810e OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9807614 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Myers, Leah. Thinning Blood [Libby] : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity. Tantor Media, Inc., 2023. Native American Culture. author debut. indigenous women memoirs. Format: OverDrive OverDrive MP3 Audiobook, Filesize: 106MB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Listen, Filesize: 106MB. Biography & Autobiography. Multi-Cultural. Sociology. Nonfiction. Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions 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. 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: her naïve childhood love for Pocahontas, her struggles with the Klallam language, the violence she faced at the hands of a close White friend as a teenager. Crisp and powerful, Thinning Blood is at once a bold reclamation of one woman's identity and a searingly honest meditation on heritage, family, and what it means to belong. Media Type: Audiobook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2023-08-02 20:00:02. Woods, Kimberly. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=43b23d04-d07b-4866-949a-e7bf6028810e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive MP3 Audiobook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=43b23d04-d07b-4866-949a-e7bf6028810e&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Listen)