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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300 |a xiii, 336 pages :  |b illustratons ;  |c 23 cm 
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500 |a "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. 
505 0 |a Prologue -- I wasn't born, I was adopted -- Coming-of-age without a net -- Coping mechanisms -- Lost bearings -- Sliding -- Fort Laramie -- Institutions of higher learning -- Coyote -- How rez cars are made -- Thicker than water, thinner than time -- In memory -- Too white to be Indian, too Indian to be white -- This once used to be ours -- Integration -- Custer's ghost -- Vernon -- Will you be here tomorrow? -- Gifts -- Losing the master key -- Epilogue. 
583 |a 2019 High Plains Book award winner in Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer. 
600 1 0 |a Harness, Susan Devan. 
650 0 |a Salish Indians  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Indian women  |z Montana  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Adopted children  |z West (U.S.)  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Interracial adoption  |z Montana. 
650 0 |a Salish Indians  |x Social life and customs. 
651 0 |a Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)  |v Biography. 
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650 0 |a Women  |z Montana  |v Biography. 
650 0 |a Adult children of alcoholics  |z West (U.S.)  |v Biography. 
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