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Bezig met laden... Thinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity (editie 2023)door Leah Myers (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkThinning Blood: A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity door Leah Myers
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![]() Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This book provided me with an education on the Native American and how the white people have destroyed their culture over the last 300 years or so. Leah Myers did a good job on weaving Native American history into the story of her family’s lives. It’s a shame we can’t go back and undo some of these wrongs. 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. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
"Leah Myers may be the last member of the Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe's strict blood quantum laws. In this unflinching and intimate memoir, Myers excavates the stories of four generations of women in order to leave a record of her family. Beginning with her great-grandmother, the last full-blooded Native member in their lineage, she connects each woman with her totem to construct her family's totem pole: protective Bear, defiant Salmon, compassionate Hummingbird, and perched on top, Raven. As she pieces together their stories, Myers weaves in tribal folktales, the history of the Native genocide, and Native mythology. Throughout, she tells the larger story of how, as she puts it, her "culture is being bleached out," offering sharp vignettes of her own life between White and Native worlds"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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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. (