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Thursday, June 12, 2014
Apache Wisdom
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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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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.
All little kids want and need is to be loved, fed, cared for, valued, and taught lessons in living--too often we justify doing other things than being with with them--sports, entertainment, and electronics.
ReplyDeleteI need help was always told by my adoptive parents that I
ReplyDeletewas Apache but hard to prove.figuring it out because I was put into foster care at birth (1961). I was adopted 3 years later into a Cuban family from St. Vincent Catholic Charities in Miami, FL.
All I've been able to find out about my birth mother and family is that I have 3 brothers and 3 sisters. The boys were born in 1951, 53, and 60 and girls were born in 1957, 58, and 59. My brother born in 1957 had a different last name than the rest of my siblings. However, who knows what kind of names they got IF they got adopted. They were all in foster care before I was born and don't even know I exist. My mother was forced to give up her children according to a letter I received from Catholic Charities. I hypothesize the legality of the forcing her to give up her children was due to the Indian Adoption Project (occurred in the US from 1958- approx 1970's). The letter did not provide any information about my birth dad or any other identifying information.
My DNA reveals the following:
22% Native American—North, Central, South
---Nuevo Leon, Northern Tamaulipas & South Texas
---Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon & South Texas
22% Spain
21% Portugal
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Native American—North, Central, South22%
Nuevo Leon, Northern Tamaulipas & South Texas
Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon & South Texas
Spain22%
Portugal21%
France14%
Cameroon, Congo, and Southern Bantu Peoples3%
Greece and the Balkans3%
Basque3%
Native American—Andean2%
Italy2%
Norway2%
European Jewish2%
Senegal1%
Germanic Europe1%
England, Wales & Northwestern Europe1%
Mali1%
Puerto Ricans
From your regions: Native American—North, Central, South; Portugal; Spain
See other regions tested350+
Ethnicity
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I hope you will help me if you can.
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-Donna Whitefeather
Hi Donna. Good luck with your search. I'm 54% Native American looking for my family. From the bracelet that I was adopted with, my guess is Navajo.
DeleteThanks for your comments buty mother was Apache unfortunately she was raped working in the field all my brother and sister have different father's
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