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Looking for Lost Bird: A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots
Looking for Lost Bird A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots
Author: Yvette Melanson, Claire Safran
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.
ISBN-13: 9780380976010
ISBN-10: 0380976013
Publication Date: 3/1999
Pages: 240
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Publisher: William Morrow Company
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Very interesting book about the way Native children were stolen and given to white families for adoption.


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