Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Wampum is placed in foster care

is placed in foster care with the Troutt family

or keep for future reference

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

the Ogiek of Kenya

understood to be the outcome of a specific society

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Wampum is placed in foster careA 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