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

and the permanence of culture

renowned thinker John Ralston Saul argues that Canada is a Métis nation

Pocket Dene: A Phrasebook for Nearly All Occasions is translated by Cheryl Herman

Their experiences -- captured in court files

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