Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (PB) Grandparents Drawing on the Métis language

Drawing on the Métis language – Michif – Kelly Saunders and Janique Dubois demonstrate how the Métis have adapted their governance structures within the Canadian state context to meet the everyday needs of Métis citizens

Their experiences -- captured in court files

have edited this book with contributions from: Richard Albert

Buffalo Is the New Buffalo by Chelsea Vowel

She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian community

Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (PB) Grandparents Drawing on the Métis languageA 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