an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled member of the Mississippi Band Anishinaabeg
hoping to break the cycle in order to give her daughter a different life than the one she had
Hale's friendship with John Smoke Johnson and his son George (father of Pauline Johnson) allowed the scholar access to the Mohawk manuscript held by Smoke Johnson
When her beloved Grandmother dies she just wants to disappear
is comprised of four substantive chapters devoted to creating a political and institutional framework enabling Canada’s First Peoples to be at the same time Indigenous Nationals and Canadian citizens
Thinning Blood : A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity Nature an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) enrolled memberA 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
