Susan Devan Harness, a cultural anthropologist, member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes and an American Indian transracial adoptee, will share her journey to understanding the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a White couple living in the rural American West. Having written and spoken to national and international audiences on American Indian transracial adoption reform, she is an award-winning author of “Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption” and recently published her cultural anthropology research “Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption.”

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