Bitterroot
Subtitle: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781496207463
Subjects: Indians of north america, northwest, pacific; Indian women; Adopted children; Interracial adoption; Women anthropologists; West (u.s.), biography; Adult children of alcoholics; Montana, social conditions; Montana, biography
Description: "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.