{"product_id":"bitterroot-a-salish-memoir-of-transracial-adoption-paperback","title":"Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSusan Devan Harness\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2019 High Plains Book Award (Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories) \u003cbr\u003e 2021 Barbara Sudler Award from History Colorado \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eBitterroot\u003c\/i\u003e Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and 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 father about her \"real\" parents. He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was born--except they hadn't, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a few years later. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Harness's search for answers revolved around her need to ascertain why she was the target of racist remarks and why she seemed always to be on the outside looking in. New questions followed her through college and into her twenties when she started her own family. Meeting her biological family in her early thirties generated even more questions. In her forties Harness decided to get serious about finding answers when, conducting oral histories, she talked with other transracial adoptees. In her fifties she realized that the concept of \"home\" she had attributed to the reservation existed only in her imagination. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Making sense of her family, the American Indian history of assimilation, and the very real--but culturally constructed--concept of race helped Harness answer the often puzzling questions of stereotypes, a sense of nonbelonging, the meaning of family, and the importance of forgiveness and self-acceptance. In the process \u003ci\u003eBitterroot \u003c\/i\u003ealso provides a deep and rich context in which to experience life. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSusan Devan Harness \u003c\/b\u003e(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 \u003ci\u003eMixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958-1967)\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 360\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.8 x 8.8 x 6.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 01, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45673922297958,"sku":"9781496219572","price":32.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/R0V1RVU1eUFJTFNvdUhMeWFNaGpKdz09.webp?v=1780127420","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/bitterroot-a-salish-memoir-of-transracial-adoption-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}