Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption Contributor(s): Harness, Susan Devan (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496207467 ISBN-13: 9781496207463 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $31.46 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Family & Relationships | Adoption & Fostering - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - Native American Studies |
Dewey: B |
LCCN: 2017056173 |
Series: American Indian Lives |
Physical Information: 1.18" H x 7.78" W x 9.22" (1.51 lbs) 352 pages |
Themes: - Topical - Adoption - Topical - Family - Ethnic Orientation - Native American |
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Publisher 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 about her "real" parents. He replied that they had 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. 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). |