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Rosebud to welcome back adoptees
Tiwahe GlukinIpi (Bringing the family back to life)
By Brandon Ecoffey | LCT Editor
ROSEBUD, SD—Generations of Lakota people have been cast out in to the Native
Diaspora by state and federal policies designed to break down
traditional familial units.
The citizens of the Rosebud Sioux Nation, however, are working to mend
some of these relationships destroyed by government policy by welcoming
home tribal citizens who were once thought of as lost.
Since the inception of colonization in North America federal policy has
been designed to erase the cultural bonds that Native people have with
their communities occupying their ancestral lands. Early ideas on
dealing with the “Indian problem” consisted of outright extermination,
efforts to assimilate, and eventually to relocate whole nations, as well
as individual tribal citizens to urban areas.
The Indian Relocation Act of 1956 provided financial and professional
incentives to Native people willing to abandon their lives on the
reservation. After four years of the program the Bureau of Indian
Affairs reported that approximately 31,000 people had joined the
program, however, the full impact of Native people’s migration was that,
according to PBS, as many as 750,000 Native people left their
reservations to work in the cities.
Today many Native children find themselves living with non-Native
families and in state foster care facilities as a result of
hyper-aggressive efforts by state social service programs to seize
Native children. According to a 2011 report by National Public Radio
Native children make up 50% of those in South Dakota’s foster care
system despite only being 15% of the overall population.
Of those Native
children in foster care 90% of them are living with non-Native
caretakers.

The
Rosebud Sioux Tribe will welcome home adoptees at the 139th Annual
Rosebud Fair, Rodeo and Contest Powwow, which runs August 28-30 at the
Rosebud Fair Grounds in Mission, South Dakota. Image from RST
The result of these policies is thousands upon thousands of Native
people living in the United States without a connection to their people
or nations. To help repatriate these citizens with their own
communities, at this year’s Rosebud Sioux Tribal Fair, a special ceremony will take place that will welcome home those who were sent off through adoption or in to foster care.
“The inspiration for the event was Sandy White Hawk,” said Marlies White
Hat of Sinte Gleska University’s Tiwahe GlukinIpi (Bringing the family
back to life) program, a program that specializes in juvenile mental
health.
According to White Hat, Ms. White Hawk was placed in to a foster home
in a small all white town. White Hawk would eventually find her roots
and would embark on an effort to help bring Native people who were taken
away back to their communities.
Once she approached representatives of the tribe word spread throughout a
network of tribal programs who were all supportive of the idea to host
an event to welcome these people home. White Hawk has also created the
First Nations Repatriation Institute whose mission is partly to “to
bring awareness and healing to Indian communities impacted by adoption
and foster care.”
During the fair the tribe will have a ceremony during the pow-wow for
those coming home as well as family members of those who were adopted
out.
“Almost everyone I talked to mentioned that they knew someone or had a
relative who was taken in to foster care. There are some stories of a
black car pulling up and entering the home to take four children out. It
was bad,” said White Hat.
White Hat would add that all family members of people who were adopted out are invited to come.
For more information on the event please contact Sandy White Hawk at (651) 442-4872 or Marlies White Hat at (605) 856-8203.
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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.
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