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About The Event
Portland, OR United States
Join us at Literary Arts on November 11th, 6pm to 8pm, for the Launch of Leah Altman’s CEKPA: A Memoir in Beaded Essays!
Author signing, Q & A, plus much much more!
Located at 716 SE Grand Ave, Portland, OR 97214
Born 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. 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.