Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption decolonization in English from the University

in English from the University of Notre Dame

according to most standard American narratives

the reserve offers little to a young Métis man

written with deep feeling and dark humor

people can heal the sick

Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption decolonization in English from the UniversityIn 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