Native Issues
Film Screening & Presentation
Apr 3, 2025

Event to highlight Indigenous adoption issues

Award-winning Native American author Susan Devan Harness, a member of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai tribes, will present "Racialized: Power Structures in American Indian Transracial Adoption" following the screening of Daughter of a Lost Bird on April 9 at 7 p.m. in Field Hall, Room 4002. The event, hosted by the Native American Studies Program at WVU, explores Indigenous adoption, identity, and cultural resilience. The evening will also feature a book signing for Harness's memoir Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption.

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