Bitter Root Childrens *Author's note: This story contains

*Author's note: This story contains no graphic love scenes or unsuitable language

they were nearly wiped out by the Long Walk

Present-day Chimayó offers a unique glimpse into a culture that has endured for centuries

mother of perpetual help

horseback riding

Bitter Root Childrens *Author's note: This story containsIn 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. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her "real" parents. He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was born except they hadn't, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a