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Bitterroot : a Salish memoir of transracial adoption / Susan Devan Harness.
Penn Museum Library E99.S2 H37 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Harness, Susan Devan, author.
- Series:
- American Indian lives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Harness, Susan Devan.
- Salish Indians--Biography.
- Salish Indians.
- Indian women--Montana--Biography.
- Indian women.
- Adopted children--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Adopted children.
- Interracial adoption--Montana.
- Interracial adoption.
- Salish Indians--Social life and customs.
- Women.
- Adult children of alcoholics.
- Women anthropologists.
- Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)--Biography.
- Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.).
- Women anthropologists--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Adult children of alcoholics--West (U.S.)--Biography.
- Women--Montana--Biography.
- Montana.
- Montana--Flathead Indian Reservation.
- West United States.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 335 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Salish memoir of transracial adoption
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln, NE : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- "Bitterroot traces Susan Devan Harness's journey to overcome the 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 dad about her "real" parents. He replied that they'd died in a car accident not long after she was born. Except they hadn't, as Harness would find out in a conversation with a social worker a few years later."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- 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.
- ISBN:
- 9781496207463
- 1496207467
- OCLC:
- 1019839307
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