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Support Info: If you are a Survivor and need emotional support, a national crisis line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week: Residential School Survivor Support Line: 1-866-925-4419. Additional Health Support Information: Emotional, cultural, and professional support services are also available to Survivors and their families through the Indian Residential Schools Resolution Health Support Program. Services can be accessed on an individual, family, or group basis.” These & regional support phone numbers are found at https://nctr.ca/contact/survivors/ .
Susan Fedorko had always
known she was put up for adoption before she was even a year old. And she had
always known she was Native American. But when she turned eighteen, she felt the
need to know more about herself. She received some information about her birth
parents through the adoption agency, but there was so little to go on. She gave
up her search many times. For the next twenty years Susie was busy with marriage
and motherhood. Finally, in 2002 and at the age of forty, she received the phone
call that would change her life. Someone was looking to find her. And what she
discovered was astonishing. Susan’s birth mother was the first Native American
supermodel, Cathee Dahmen—an international fashion model with two celebrity
marriages under her belt—and her great uncle was the famed Native American
artist, George Morrison. Cricket is the incredible story of one woman’s journey
to discover her roots and define her place in a newly complex and extended
family—with her adoptive family, her birth family, and her husband and
daughters. It’s the story of who she was “before,” who she became “after,” and
how it all happened.
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Publication:
Nov 02,
2012
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Susan Fedorko
About Susan Fedorko A lifelong resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Susan “Cricket”
Fedorko (Grand Portage Band of Chippewa - Oijbwe) has contributed her writing to
two anthologies on the subject of being adopted and has done numerous media
interviews. This new memoir details her astonishing 22-year search for answers
and describes touching reunions with both of her birth-families in two Minnesota
tribal nations. Her Chippewa – Oijbwe, birthmother, a famous supermodel, died in
1997, a short distance from Susan’s current home.
PLEASE SHARE THIS NEWS on Facebook and Twitter! Congrats Suzie - it's time adoptees write our own stories!...Trace
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The religious organizations that operated the schools — the Anglican Church of Canada, Presbyterian Church in Canada, United Church of Canada, Jesuits of English Canada and some Catholic groups — in 2015 expressed regret for the “well-documented” abuses. The Catholic Church has never offered an official apology, something that Trudeau and others have repeatedly called for.
no arrests?
Almost 7000 bodies found and not one member of the church has been arrested. The names are out there. The church must be held accountable. #NeverForget#EveryChildMatters
— Wambli Ska Wicasa 🦅🪶 (@LakotaWambli) August 30, 2021
Crime Scene
The Justice Department is protecting the names of many perpetrators of abuse of Indigenous children. We need a special independent prosecutor who can force the government and church to turn over the documents. There can be no reconciliation without justice.@MumilaaqQaqqaqpic.twitter.com/5TL6OxKM5O
— Charlie Angus NDP (@CharlieAngusNDP) July 8, 2021
This is a map of every residential "school" site in Canada.
Veronica, we adult adoptees are thinking of you today and every day. We will be here when you need us. Your journey in the adopted life has begun, nothing can revoke that now, the damage cannot be undone. Be courageous, you have what no adoptee before you has had; a strong group of adult adoptees who know your story, who are behind you and will always be so.
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Did you know?
New York’s 40-year battle for OBC access ended when on January 15 2020, OBCs were opened to ALL New York adoptees upon request without restriction. In only three days, over 3,600 adoptees filed for their record of birth. The bill that unsealed records was passed 196-12.
According to the 2020 Census, 3.6% of Colorado's population is American Indian or Alaska Native, at least in part, with the descendants of at least 200 tribal nations living in the Denver metro area.
Diane Tells His Name
Lost Birds on Al Jazeera Fault Lines
click to read and listen about Trace, Diane, Julie and Suzie
We conclude this series & continue the conversation by naming that adoption is genocide. This naming refers to the process of genocide that breaks kinship ties through adoption & other forms of family separation & policing 🧵#NAAM2022#AdoptionIsTraumaAND#AdopteeTwitter#FFY 1/6 pic.twitter.com/46v0mWISZ1
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.” The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
Original Birth Certificate Map in the USA
Why tribes do not recommend the DNA swab
Rebecca Tallbear entitled: “DNA, Blood, and Racializing the Tribe”, bearing out what I only inferred:
Detailed discussion of the Bering Strait theory and other scientific theories about the population of the modern-day Americas is beyond the scope of this essay. However, it should be noted that Indian people have expressed suspicion that DNA analysis is a tool that scientists will use to support theories about the origins of tribal people that contradict tribal oral histories and origin stories. Perhaps more important,the alternative origin stories of scientists are seen as intending to weaken tribal land and other legal claims (and even diminish a history of colonialism?) that are supported in U.S. federal and tribal law. As genetic evidence has already been used to resolve land conflicts in Asian and Eastern European countries, this is not an unfounded fear.
Susan Fedorko had always
known she was put up for adoption before she was even a year old. And she had
always known she was Native American. But when she turned eighteen, she felt the
need to know more about herself. She received some information about her birth
parents through the adoption agency, but there was so little to go on. She gave
up her search many times. For the next twenty years Susie was busy with marriage
and motherhood. Finally, in 2002 and at the age of forty, she received the phone
call that would change her life. Someone was looking to find her. And what she
discovered was astonishing. Susan’s birth mother was the first Native American
supermodel, Cathee Dahmen—an international fashion model with two celebrity
marriages under her belt—and her great uncle was the famed Native American
artist, George Morrison. Cricket is the incredible story of one woman’s journey
to discover her roots and define her place in a newly complex and extended
family—with her adoptive family, her birth family, and her husband and
daughters. It’s the story of who she was “before,” who she became “after,” and
how it all happened.
A lifelong resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Susan “Cricket”
Fedorko (Grand Portage Band of Chippewa - Oijbwe) has contributed her writing to
two anthologies on the subject of being adopted and has done numerous media
interviews. This new memoir details her astonishing 22-year search for answers
and describes touching reunions with both of her birth-families in two Minnesota
tribal nations. Her Chippewa – Oijbwe, birthmother, a famous supermodel, died in
1997, a short distance from Susan’s current home.
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