{"product_id":"cekpa-a-memoir-in-beaded-essays-pb","title":"Cekpa : A Memoir in Beaded Essays (PB)","description":"\u003cp\u003eBorn Baby Girl Black Feather, Leah Altman was removed from her tribal community through placement by the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), to be adopted and raised by a family in Portland, Oregon. At twenty-one, she journeys across the West twice to rediscover her roots—to her birth father’s Lakota family in Pine Ridge, South Dakota, and to her mother’s Persian relatives in Denver, Colorado.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs an adoptee, Leah felt the hole in her heart where her cekpa was missing. Lacking this tradition so essential to Lakota culture manifested in a troubled youth of reckless decisions, substance abuse, and struggling to fit in at school after school. A child without a cekpa is left unanchored, and without hers, Leah was at a loss in life. In an intimate portrayal of self-discovery, Leah’s memoir tells a painstaking construction of her search for identity, written to ensure her own children grow up with an understanding of their roots.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn this collection of personal essays dedicated to her two daughters, Altman masterfully weaves together her own literary cekpa in a coming-of-age story about transracial adoption, tribal enrollment, motherhood, and what it truly means to be connected to one’s culture, homeland, and family.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ooligan Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56394884284721,"sku":"ftb1789937030226","price":17.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0993\/0925\/7009\/files\/cekpa-a-memoir-in-beaded-essays-pb_1.jpg?v=1789937035","url":"https:\/\/canistersealfit.shop\/products\/cekpa-a-memoir-in-beaded-essays-pb","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}