Adoption didn’t solve the “Indian Problem.” Its weight simply shifted to our small shoulders. No one told us “we” represented “them.” We had to find that out for ourselves. Some of us are still looking. Bitterroot is a roadmap. - Susan Harness
An author recounts how 1960s policies ripped apart families and communities, including her own.
MUST READ: Adoption didn’t solve the ‘Indian Problem’ — High Country News
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Susan Devan Harness, author of Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption is a member of the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, a writer lecturer and cultural anthropologist living in Fort Collins, Colorado.
10-16-2019
This past weekend Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption took home two awards at the High Plains Book Festival: Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer. I am so honored to be among so many really great authors.
This past weekend Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption took home two awards at the High Plains Book Festival: Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer. I am so honored to be among so many really great authors.
Thank you goes to the readers and staff of the High Plains Book
Festival, the University of Nebraska Press for their seeing the value of
this project, my advisers Kate Browne and John Calderazzo, the
overwhelming support from friends and family and the
many voices who contributed to this work.
It is humbling.
All my best,
Susan
Susan Harness, M.A.
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