Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity NBV3C President and Founder of the

President and Founder of the Indigenous Education Institute at Friday Harbor

She is a descendant of Chief Kwah and Stiche

Combining and reconciling primary historical sources

Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Relationships at the University of Guelph

an Inuktitut word for grandfather)

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity NBV3C President and Founder of theA 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