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BITTERROOT: Adoption Didn't Solve the Indian Problem
Adoption didn’t solve the “Indian Problem.” Its weight simply shifted
to our small shoulders. No one told us “we” represented “them.” We had
to find that out for ourselves. Some of us are still looking.
Bitterroot is a roadmap. - Susan Harness
An author recounts how 1960s policies ripped apart families and communities, including her own.
MUST READ: Adoption didn’t solve the ‘Indian Problem’ — High Country News
See her other posts on this blog... HERE
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Susan Devan Harness, author of Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption
is a member of the Confederated Salish Kootenai Tribes, a writer
lecturer and cultural anthropologist living in Fort Collins, Colorado.
10-16-2019
This past weekend Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption took
home two awards at the High Plains Book Festival: Creative Nonfiction
and Indigenous Writer. I am so honored to be among so many really great
authors.
Thank you goes to the readers and staff of the High Plains Book
Festival, the University of Nebraska Press for their seeing the value of
this project, my advisers Kate Browne and John Calderazzo, the
overwhelming support from friends and family and the
many voices who contributed to this work.
It is humbling.
All my best,
Susan
Susan Harness, M.A.
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ADOPTION TRUTH
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.”
The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
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