Leah Myers

audio nonfiction/memoir (3 hr, 52min) - Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe member Myers has grown up far from any tribe (in what is now known as Georgia/Alabama and later moving to Arizona), feels her Nativeness inherently, and at the same time questions whether she is "Native enough"--but much more often has her heritage doubted by people of all races, including other Native peoples. CW/TW: racial slurs and insults, assault, sexual assault, victim blaming, systemic and societal inequities.

very skilled writer providing important American history (and current issues) as well as personal and family history, interspersed with myths from her culture. Would definitely recommend.

2024 February reading challenge: cover is red or pink, indigenous author, memoir, should have read in high school, under 290 pages.… (meer)

I was having A Week and reading Stressful Books while I read this simultaneously. For whatever reason, the -way- this memoir flowed was soothing. It's not linear. The use of folklore vignettes as chapter openings was wonderful, and the connections throughout each chapter were something I admired. I'm always delighted when my state is mentioned in a book, and it is throughout this memoir. "I've been there! I know where that is! I know what you're talking about!" I'm only slightly familiar with the named tribes and I read about issues concerning them, but I can't speak to it. I learned a lot and was reminded of a lot. Some stuff never occurred to me until now, and some of it, I was going, "Yes, I know a little bit about this." I'm so glad I read this. I hope it's widely read and celebrated. I hope for the best for Leah Meyers.… (meer)