Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Wampum "The Art of Ceremony honors

"The Art of Ceremony honors the sovereignty of Tribes in Oregon and embodies a sense of healing

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

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

All our thriving is mutual

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Wampum "The Art of Ceremony honorsA 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