I want you all to read this post by Rebecca Hawkes and let me know where you land on this list and how you feel about it.
Sea Glass & Other Fragments: Five Categories of Adoptees Missing from the "Vocal Minority...: That phrase, "they don't talk about being adopted so they don't care about it." Don't use silence to dismiss thoughts...
My thoughts: Without the internet, I wouldn't even have this blog AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES or even know about the above post. I wouldn't be able to read the voices, views and written words of the adopted. In a real sense, I would not have moved from the thick dark fog to the "knowing" place where I am today. By the way, I am still changing - every - single - day. I cannot believe how different I am since I started ONE SMALL SACRIFICE to the next book TWO WORLDS. I have not been threatened by anyone to shut up about my views on adoption -- well, not yet anyway. I am not a silenced adoptee though I am sure there are people who wish I would just stop reporting on issues like the Baby Veronica case. I can see clearly that denying this horrific history only dooms us to repeat it. I can see that the Indian Adoption Projects was ANCESTRICIDE - a way to extract Indians from tribal rolls and make us American-protypes. These projects and programs erased our ancestry and identity in sealed closed adoptions. This was genocide for many tribes. I do not judge those who adopted us. I do not expect an apology from the American government or even an acknowledgment of what they did. I judge the governments and individuals who created adoption programs to remove Indian children from their families....That was an atrocity and evil... Trace
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- You're Breaking Up: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl #ICWA
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- THE PLACEMENT OF AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDREN - THE NEED FOR CHANGE (1974)
- NEW: Study by Jeannine Carriere (First Nations) (2007)
- NEW STUDY: Post Adoption (Australia)
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- Laura Briggs: Feminists and the Baby Veronica Case...
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- Adopt an Elder: Ellowyn Locke (Oglala Lakota)
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- Survivor Not Victim (my interview with Von)
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To Veronica Brown
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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— Adoptee Futures CIC (@AdopteeFutures) November 29, 2022
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.
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.
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