Native American Heritage Month Guest Speaker

The La Veta Library invites you to join us for a lecture and book signing with Susan Harness, author of Bitterfoot, A Salish Memoir Of Transracial Adoption. Ms. Harness’s memoir is a sweeping examination of her life that explores the uneasy intersection of race, history and the brutal government American Indian policies that affect the lives of her and her families. Susan remains involved in the issue of American Indian transracial adoption and continues to write and speak nationally and internationally about this topic as well as about. American Indian assimilation policies and practices. This event is free and open to the public.