Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature carries her people’s past within

carries her people’s past within her memories

When her beloved Grandmother dies she just wants to disappear

- Arnd Schneider

and Noah Sainnawap

is comprised of four substantive chapters devoted to creating a political and institutional framework enabling Canada’s First Peoples to be at the same time Indigenous Nationals and Canadian citizens

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature carries her people’s past withinA 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