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Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter (1993) is a collection of autobiographical essays in which Janet Campbell Hale reflects on her youth as a member of a poor, troubled Indian family and on connections between her own identity and Indian culture and history. Lyrical, angry, caught up in the process of writing and self-creation, Hale explores what it means to her to be an Indian in contemporary America.

Janet Campbell Hale, born in 1947, is a member of the Coeur d'Alene tribe. Growing up on reservations and in cities around the Northwest, she attended college in Berkeley, California, and has published several books of poems, short fiction, several works for children, and two novels.

Theme Essay

http://libraries.idaho.gov/node/495
"The Place of Janet Campbell Hale and Sherman Alexie in American Indian Literature," by Dennis Walsh, Idaho State University.

Information on Janet Campbell Hale

http://www.hanksville.org/storytellers/jchale/
Storytellers Native American Authors Online web site has information on the author, a bibliography and list of awards.

Book Review of Bloodlines: Odyssey of a Native Daughter

http://nativeamericas.aip.cornell.edu/old/Reviews/reviews.html#anchor19197
Review by Terren Ilana Wein, who teaches writing at Parkland College. Published in Native Americas Journal, Akwekon Press of the American Indian Program at Cornell University.

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