“A series of funny and sad stories of Altman’s life experiences as a young Native girl growing up in Portland, Oregon, outside of her tribe.” —David G. Lewis

“Cekpa by Leah Altman is a series of funny and sad stories of Altman’s life experiences as a young Native girl growing up in Portland, Oregon, outside of her tribe. Altman experiences all too familiar events in the lives of thousands of reconnecting Native people, challenged by an adoption system that adopted her out without caring for Native cultural lives. Altman reconnects with her birth families with hope and disappointment, as she works to make herself whole again. Identity, family, genealogy, drug use, youth, belonging, culture, love, sex, growing up, and finding oneself fill this remarkable story of rediscovery, a story that so many Native people today experience in parallel paths.” —David G. Lewis, author of Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley