Susan Devan Harness
After conducting my research about American Indian transracial adoptees, I wanted to make it accessible to a wider, more general audience. An audience that was talking about adoption because they either adopted, or had a child removed, or were working to place a child, or were interested in policy regarding adoption. In order to do that, I had to take an academic, scholarly book and adapt it so one didn't need a dictionary in order to understand most of the words and phrasing. Creative nonfiction seemed to be the best possible format with which to tell the story of child placement as the trajectories of American Indian history, policy and social memory collided, sometimes violently.
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In 1968, Solange and I were "import French teachers" in Saskatchewan, Canada. We had two young daughters. We adopted James Kevin Wasposwyan (aged 6 months) through A.I.M. (Adopt Indian and Metis) in Regina. My wife feared a "thalidomide baby". We took Olivier Kevin back to Sask in 1983. He left this world in 1988, at the age of 20. Did we make a mistake ?
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