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Panelist – James Welch Inaugural Native American Literary Festival

June 27, 2022 2 Comments

I am so honored to be part of James Welch Native Lit Festival, where important conversations of what it means to be Indigenous will be held in Missoula Montana July 28, 29, and 30th.  To be  amid such notable colleagues as Louise Erdrich, Tommy Orange, Debra Earling, and so many others is definintely heady and […]

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Working Within the Religious Community for Child Placement reform and Social Justice

January 28, 2021 2 Comments

We never know where our paths will take us.  We just know we are going on a direction, many times, we are being led.  For me, it is deeper into the forest.  Now, that forest isn’t scary, but it is relatively unexplored.  That forest is American Indian child placement.   I was in my 40s when […]

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Bitterroot – Winner of 2 High Plains Book Awards and a framework for reflection

October 17, 2019 No Comments

Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption took home two awards from the 2019 High Plains Book Awards – Indigenous Writer and Creative Nonfiction.  It was indeed a humbling moment, because, like any event, it doesn’t sit alone and isolated, but is mixed and kneaded with so many life-changing events around it.  One such event […]

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TEDxMileHigh is a wrap! Now, let’s talk…

June 27, 2019 No Comments
Susan Devan Harness - TEDxMileHigh 6/22/2019

Ok, I just gotta say this:  being a speaker at TEDxMileHigh is a (terrifying) rush!  And for me, a relative introvert, it overwhelmed my senses.  After preparing for this moment for almost 2 months, complete with several intense and interesting trainings, Rick and I walked down the hall and toward the dressing room.  One of […]

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Exciting events coming up and changes to the website!

February 28, 2019 No Comments

Unless you are Stephen King, publishing is like graduating from college – people aren’t knocking down your door asking you to work for them, or in this case, talking about your book.  At least not until you get your name out there.  And that can take a bit of time, a lot of patience, and […]

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