Bitterroot : a Salish memoir of transracial adoption

Bitterroot A Salish memoir of transracial adoption

Susan Devan Harness

Book - 2020

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Subjects
Harness, Susan Devan.
Salish > Biography.
Indigenous women > Montana > Biography.
Adopted children > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Interracial adoption > Montana.
Salish > Social life and customs.
Women anthropologists > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Women > Montana > Biography.
Adult children of alcoholics > West (U.S.) > Biography.
Flathead Reservation (Mont.) > Biography.
Autobiographies.
Genres
Autobiographies
Published
Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press 2020.
Language
English
Main Author
Susan Devan Harness (-)
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
9781496219572
  • 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.

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