Exploring Identity After American-Indian Transracial Adoption

Susan Devan Harness is the author of "Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption," a memoir describing her experience as a transracial adoptee removed from her American Indian home and adopted by a white family in Montana. Susan is also the author of "Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption: After the Indian Adoption Project." She is a High Plains Book Award winner in the categories of “Indigenous Writer” and “Creative Nonfiction” and is a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. Susan writes and speaks nationally and internationally about American-Indian transracial adoption and about American-Indian assimilation policies and practices.