Bitterroot : a Salish memoir of transracial adoption /
"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...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | American Indian lives.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.