Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial AdoptionIn Bitterroot 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 bornexcept they hadn't, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a

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A tale of revenge

Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma

The governments of both the United States and Canada

and notes on the herbal traditions of other lands

Drawing on the special relationship that the Native people of southeastern Alaska have always had with nature

There she records the truth about her life and her marriage

which—even at its most abstract—echoes the calls and cries of the earth

and race relations that remain compelling today

and the teachings of plants

these excerpts tally the changes

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