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Portions of chapter 14 originally appeared in Mixing Cultural Identities through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958–1967) (New York: Mellen, 2009). Used with permission.

“Bad Wine” is reprinted from Victor Charlo, Put Sey (Good Enough) (Kalispell MT: Many Voices, 2008). Used with permission.

Cover designed by University of Nebraska Press; cover image courtesy of the author.

Author photo © Rick Harness.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Harness, Susan Devan, author.

Title: Bitterroot: a Salish memoir of transracial adoption / Susan Devan Harness.

Other titles: Salish memoir of transracial adoption

Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, [2018] | Series: American Indian lives

Identifiers: LCCN 2017056173

ISBN 9781496207463 (cloth: alk. paper)

ISBN 9781496210869 (epub)

ISBN 9781496210876 (mobi)

ISBN 9781496210883 (pdf)

Subjects: LCSH: Harness, Susan Devan. | Salish Indians—Biography. | Indian women—Montana—Biography. | Adopted children—West (U.S.)—Biography. | Interracial adoption—Montana. | Salish Indians—Social life and customs. | Flathead Indian Reservation (Mont.)—Biography. | Women anthropologists—West (U.S.)—Biography. | Adult children of alcoholics—West (U.S.)—Biography. | Women—Montana—Biography.

Classification: LCC E99.S2 H37 2018 | DDC 978.6004/9794350092 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017056173

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