Bitterroot a Salish memoir of transracial adoption

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Main Author: Harness, Susan Devan (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, 2020.
Series:American Indian lives.
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Item Description:"In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father abour her "real" parents. He replied that they died in a car accident not long after she was born--except they hadn't, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a few years later." --back cover.
Physical Description:xiii, 336 pages : illustratons ; 23 cm
ISBN:1496219570
9781496219572
Author Notes:Susan Devan Harness (Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes) is a writer, lecturer, and oral historian and has been a research associate for the Tri-Ethnic Center for Prevention Research at Colorado State University. She is the author of Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958-1967) .