Prologue -- 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.
Summary:
"Bitterroot traces Susan Devan Harness's journey to overcome the 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 dad about her "real" parents. He replied that they'd died in a car accident not long after she was born. Except they hadn't, as Harness would find out in a conversation with a social worker a few years later."--Provided by publisher.
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