Thinning Blood
A Memoir of Family, Myth, and Identity

This is a memoir that wanders through Native American history and myth with poetic flourish; all the while being overtly self-conscious about the fact that the author's one-eighth blood quantum pushes her to the questionable edge of being a "real" Indian. The author is an enrolled member of the Jame......more

I really wanted to like this book. I did not. The lyricism and structure of Ms. Myers’ writing is one of the only things that made this book even marginally palatable. Her memoir reads more as a pity plea, or as a poorly supported stand against perceived injustice, while failing to mention that her......more

As a Native person, I wanted to love this book but it left me so infuriated. To me, the author just wanted to be angry, lament her situation, and do little to rematriate. She was met with a community who understands the deep impacts to family and culture as a result of settler-colonialism and. as a......more

While this book wasn't one that had a big impact on me, it is not a bad book by any means! I would class it with Spirit Run: A 6,000-Mile Marathon Through North America's Stolen Land and Heart Berries, in that it is by a new generation of young people writing as a way of processing their relationshi......more

This book was written by a woman who is very likely to be the last member of the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe in her family line, due to her tribe’s strict blood quantum laws. Her great-grandmother chose to marry outside of the tribe, and that is where Myers begins sharing her family story with us, wea......more