AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
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A blog by and about American Indian Adoptees, Split Feathers, Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects. To teach the history of the Indian Adoption Projects, and the creation of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the effects of adoption on adoptees. A blog for and by American Indian and First Nations adoptees who are called a STOLEN GENERATION.
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
4d ago
This is a reminder, you are ANCIENT and sacred and sovereign... remember...
Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
6d ago
To go even further back one hundred years. The Bureau of Indian Affairs was in stark contrast in 1824 when federal Indian policy was rooted in war, blood, and death. It’s not surprising that the bureau was first planted in the War Department before being rooted permanently in the U.S. Department of the Interior in 1849.
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Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
1w ago
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Assembly of First Nations National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak says First Nations children shouldn’t be placed with for-profit companies in Ontario’s child-welfare system.
She made her remarks in an exclusive interview with Global News after the broadcast and publication online of a year-long, multi-part investigation that revealed allegations of targeting and mistreatment of Indigenous youth by some group homes.
“That’s appalling to hear,” Chief Woodhouse Nepinak told Global News. “We’ve always known that our kids were a target.
“I don’t think our children should be f ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
2w ago
Yikes!
I uploaded a new and expanded edition of the Kindle ebook and paperback today on Amazon. The paperback is not "live" yet - so it's not available today. (I had one correction to make about SCALPS and added even more history.)
The new size will allow this book to be sold on Bookshop and purchased by libraries.
NEW ISBN: 979-821838400-5
(With a lower price for the paperback: $15.00)
I also redesigned the paperback book cover... it's been a wacky crazy day.
Want to read the pdf? Shoot me an email: tracelara@pm.me
XOX
Trace
p.s. - the first edition, if you have one ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
2w ago
Seneca Nation citizen Terry Cross is widely known as the founding executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association, launched in the early 1980s, and continues to serve as a senior adviser to the organization assisting tribes with preventing child abuse and neglect.
These days, Cross, 71, spends time taking long walks on the Nedonna Beach with his wife, Kristin, he said in a lengthy interview with The Imprint. But he admitted that he’s “not very good” at staying retired, and so his work with Indigenous children and families through the organization known as NIC ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
3w ago
READ HERE
montanafreepress.org
Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
3w ago
Putting a spotlight on missing and murdered Indigenous women is something Kali Reis (Wampanoag) has been passionate about throughout her career and is one of the reasons she signed on to play Navarro. “That’s the whole reason why I started bringing awareness to different issues in the community with my boxing career,” Reis says.
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Spoiler alert: Ending the TV Mystery HERE
ABOUT KALI:
Reis was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 24, 1986 and is the youngest of five children.[8] She and her siblings were raised by their mother in East Providence, Rhode Islan ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
1M ago
Indian boys at work in shoe-makers shop at Carlisle Barracks
Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902
Boarding schools
United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)
Sioux boys as they arrived at the Indian Training School, Carlisle Barracks, Oct. 5, 1879
Sioux boys as they arrived at the Indian Training School, Carlisle Barracks, Oct. 5, '79
Description
Black and white, large group photograph of Lakota SIoux boys in front of residential school facilities. Title written on verso.
People
Creator (cre): Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902
Contributor (ctb): Speck, Frank Goulds ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
1M ago
Native American children make up more than a third of the foster care caseload in Montana, despite representing less than 10% of the state’s child population. While there’s a broad consensus among child welfare experts that this outsized representation is a problem, there exists no collective strategy to address it. The Montana Free Press series Keeping the Kids, supported by a data fellowship through the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism, explores the available data and highlights examples of local solutions around the state. This article focuses on MTFP’s analysis of ..read more
AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES
1M ago
By Trace Hentz (blog editor) REBLOG from 2019
I run across comments by adoptive parents and PAPS (potential adoptive parents) asking why is it wrong for non-Natives to adopt Native kids? Volumes have been written about this, on this blog, and in medical studies and published reports but we STILL have people who don't understand. Curtis and Ashok Kaltenbaugh were born in Manitoba and are of First Nations ancestry. After the 1980 death of their younger brother, at ages of 7 and 4 respectively, they were removed from the custody of their birth mother and placed for adoption with a middle-cl ..read more