Melanson, Yvette D.

Looking for Lost Bird : a Jewish woman's discovery of her Navajo roots / Yvette Melanson with Claire Safran. - New York : Bard, c2000. - 233 p. 21 cm.

"An Avon book."

"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 '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."

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Melanson, Yvette D.


Navajo women--Arizona--Tolani Lakes Region--Biography.
Jewish women--New York (State)--Neponsit (New York)--Biography.
Adoptees--New York (State)--Neponsit (New York)--Biography.
Navajo Indians--Social life and customs.--Arizona--Tolani Lakes Region

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