Structures of Non-Belonging – Presentation – Adoption Iniative

American Indian children who are adopted into white families are accompanied by the supernova that occurs when race, history, and policy collide.  We don’t fit anywhere because of cultural structures that are so deeply inbedded in the U.S. as to be nearly invisible.  The theories of ethnic group belonging, social hierarchy and capitals, and social […]

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Presentation – House Museum Book Club

I have been invited as a featured author for a Q & A presentation for the House Museum Book Club, part of History Colorado.  Recently, Bitterroot: A Salish Memoir of Transracial Adoption was chosen.  I am so honored to have been invited to be part of this discussion.  In 2021, History Colorado awarded Bitterroot the […]

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