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Still Adoption Warriors: Remember Von Hughes
REBLOG FROM 2017
Still #Adoption Warriors
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By Trace Hentz (Blog Editor)
Hi everyone. Huge thanks for visiting this blog and reading this blog.
In case you don't know, I started this blog back in Dec. 2009. I didn't
know what I was doing but I had the notion to find more adoptees like
me. Well, well, well... it worked.
Even in 2005 when I was writing and doing research for my memoir ONE
SMALL SACRIFICE, I had no idea how many adoptees there are or were...
not exactly easy to find out. There could be up to 7 million in the US
right now, maybe even more. That's not counting our relatives in
Canada.
Along the way I found others who were blogging their experiences, like
Von Coates in Australia. She educated me, and helped me become a better
adoptee-activist-blogger. We became friends and Von and I emailed, and
both of us contributed our writing to the LOST DAUGHTERS blog.
Read this latest update from Von HERE (she started this blog in 2012)
From her blog:
In the world of adoption, there are many phrases and words for
describing adoption, the process of adoption or parts of it, adoptees
and other characters appearing with regularity. So called experts write
books about acceptable adoption language and there are regularly
arguments in various venues around social medias sites on correct
useage, offensiveness, unacceptability and who is
right/wrong/indifferent....
Von had her Blogger blog that was
taken down. Someone complained about her posts and Google shut her
down. But she is a warrior and didn't stop. She moved her writing over
to Wordpress.
After time and so much experience, the activism and blogging changed us. We may not write as often. We see the same battles, the same ignorance and we see the same
propaganda. We see over and over how the billion dollar adoption
industry silences the adoptee. In many ways we are seen as the
commodity - the one they made their money on... today adoptees are still
in the SILENT MAJORITY.
In many states in the United States, adoptees still cannot request their
original birth certificate (OBC) or their sealed adoption files. See
what states have access in 2016 HERE.
For the past 7+ years doing this blog, I saw that other adoptee blogs
were firing up fighting this, as more and more adoptees found their voice.
And they voiced their anger. And their disappointment.
And they told their stories of reunions with their first families, or if
they were not able to meet their mom or dad, because they were too
late, because their parent had already died.
Why? These adoption laws are archaic and ridiculous. They were written to protect the people who adopted us.
I have talked to adoptees about the anguish of not knowing who they are.
And some tell me about reunions that started great and went silent.
(If you don't live close to your relatives, travel and jobs can make
reunions very difficult to keep going.)
Adoptees know we have two families to find, our mother and our
father's people. We may find one side and go into reunion, after we open
our adoption records. The other side of our family might wait years to
be found.
I was telling my friend Maggie yesterday (February 6, 2017) that I have not met my two half-sisters on my mother's side. (2022 - still have not met them)
So I am still an adoption warrior but not as vocal as I had been when I
started this blog. It's time for others to FIND THEIR VOICE and write
their truths and BLOG too.
If you are an adoptee and you have a blog and you are writing about
adoption, please leave a comment here (below.) Tell us the blog address
so we can read you and support you.
We have a long way to go... The Indian Adoption Projects took thousands
of us... and many adoptees still need to find our way home.
Canada's Residential Schools
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.
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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.
ADOPTION TRUTH
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.
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.
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