Books by Susan D Harness
Bitterroot : A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption. University of Nebraska Press. 2018
2019 Finalist Colorado Book Award – Memoir
2019 High Plains Book Award – Indigenous Writer, Creative Nonfiction
2020 Sudler Award, History Colorado.
Mixing Cultural Identities Through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project (1958-1967). Edwin Mellen Press, 2008
ANTHOLOGY Contributions
Coming Home. Relative Strangers: Inheritance, Identity, and the Meaning of Kinship. Edited by B.K. Jackson. ELJ Editions. 2026.
Racist Structes of American Indian Transracial Adoption. Philosophies of Adoption: Perspectives and Reflections. Lexington Books. 2024.
Shawl Dance. When We Become Ours: A YA Adoption Anthology. Edited by Shannon Gibney & Nicole Chung. HarperCollins. 2023.
Aftermath. Stolen Generations: An Anthology.
Lost Children of the Indian Adoptions Projects Series, Book Three. Edited by Trace L. Henz. Blue Hand Books, 2016.





