Looking for Lost Bird A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots

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 a "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. 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 a "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.Melanson, Yvette D. is the author of 'Looking for Lost Bird A Jewish Woman Discovers Her Navajo Roots', published 2000 under ISBN 9780380795536 and ISBN 0380795531.