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Bitterroot : A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Harness, Susan Devan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I wasn't born, I was adopted
  • Coming of age without a net
  • Coping mechanisms
  • Lost bearings
  • Sliding
  • Fort Laramie
  • Institutions of higher learning
  • Coyote
  • How rez cars are made
  • Thicker than water, thinner than time
  • In memory
  • Too white to be Indian, too Indian to be white
  • This once used to be ours
  • Integration
  • Custer's ghost
  • Vernon
  • Will you be here tomorrow?
  • Gifts
  • Losing the master key
  • Epilogue.