Susan Devan Harness

Bitterroot

A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

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Produktbeschreibung

Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to overcome the struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple, and living in the rural American West.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 517g
• ISBN-13: 9781496219572
• ISBN-10: 1496219570
• Artikelnr.: 58015540

Autorenporträt

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).  

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1. I Wasn’t Born; I Was Adopted
2. Coming-of-Age without a Net
3. Coping Mechanisms
4. Lost Bearings
5. Sliding
6. Fort Laramie
7. Institutions of Higher Learning
8. Coyote
9. How Rez Cars Are Made
10. Thicker Than Water, Thinner Than Time
11. In Memory
12. Too White to Be Indian, Too Indian to Be White
13. This Once Used to Be Ours
14. Integration
15. Custer’s Ghost
16. Vernon
17. Will You Be Here Tomorrow?
18. Gifts
19. Losing the Master Key
Epilogue