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GREENFIELD, MA (2017) Tragic, true, heartbreaking, astonishing... those words have been used
to describe the anthology Two Worlds, the first book to expose in
first-person detail the adoption practices that have been going on for
years under the guise of caring for destitute Indigenous children in North America.
What
really happened and where are these Native children now?
The new updated Second
Edition of TWO WORLDS (Vol. 1), with narratives from Native American
and First Nations adoptees, covers the history of Indian child removals
in North America, the adoption projects, their impact on Indian Country,
the 60s Scoop in Canada and how it impacts the adoptee and their
families.
"This book
changed history," say editor Trace Hentz. "There is no doubt in my mind the adoption projects were buried and hidden... we adoptees are the living proof."
The Lost Children Book Series includes: Two Worlds, Called
Home: The Roadmap, Stolen Generations, and In The Veins: Poetry. The
book series is an important contribution to American Indian history.
Trace Hentz (formerly DeMeyer) located other Native adult survivors of
adoption and asked them to write a narrative for the first anthology. The adoptees share their
unique experience of living in Two Worlds, surviving assimilation via
adoption, opening sealed adoption records, and in most cases, a reunion
with their tribal relatives. Indigenous identity and historical trauma
takes on a whole new meaning in this adoption book series.
Since 2004,
award winning journalist Hentz was writing her historical biography “One
Small Sacrifice: A Memoir.” She was contacted by many adoptees after
stories were published about her work. More adoptees were found after
“One Small Sacrifice” had its own Facebook page and the American Indian
Adoptees blog started in 2009. In 2011, Trace was introduced to Patricia
Busbee and asked her to co-edit the first edition of Two Worlds.
As
Hentz writes in the Preface, "The only way we change history is to write
it ourselves." This book is a must read for all that want the truth,
since very little is known or published on this history.
"I was asked to update this book by one adoptee contributor and I added a new narrative by Levi Eagle Feather, and more information on the 60s Scoop. Please tell your friends and other adoptees," Trace Hentz says. "One day in America, we Lost Children will have our day in court."
Patricia Busbee is writing a new chapter on her adoptee reunion in the anthology CALLED Home in 2018.
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