Bitterroot : a Salish memoir of transracial adoption Susan Devan Harness

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Notes: Elecresource; ELEC copy Purchased from the NMAI Library Endowment.
Contents: 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

Topic: Interracial adoption; Social life and customs; Adopted children; Adult children of alcoholics; Indian women; Women; Women anthropologists