Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots

ISBN-13: 9780380795536 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 240 str.

Yvette D. Melanson; Claire Safran

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In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died. In this haunting memoir, Yvette Melanson tells of being raised to believe that she was white and Jewish. At age forty-three, she learned that she was a "Lost Bird," a Navajo child taken against her family's wishes, and that her grieving birth mother had never stopped looking for her until the day she died.