In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West

You'll learn how the Navajo people were given their weaving tradition (and it wasn't borrowed from the Pueblos

Through the stories we tell

disrupting the certainty of disciplinary knowledge produced in the twentieth century

Wisdom Sits in Places: Landscape and Language Among the Western Apache health In Bitterroot Susan Devan HarnessThis remarkable book introduces us to four unforgettable Apache people, each of whom offers a different take on the significance of places in their culture. Apache conceptions of wisdom, manners and morals, and of their own history are inextricably intertwined with place, and by allowing us to overhear his conversations with Apaches on these subjects Basso expands our awareness of what place can mean to people. Most of us use the term "sense of place"