Leah Myers
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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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...
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...
Author
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by The Millions
"Slender and poetic...mov[es] with ease from memoir to Native history to myth and back again." —Maud Newton, New York Times Book Review
A 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 S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due
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