by Blog Editor Trace L Hentz
I have followed the disturbing tribal dis-enrollment issue many years, first as a journalist and then as a concerned adoptee who is still without tribal membership.
First of all, since CONQUEST, the governments of Canada and the US had goals.
The inter-country ARENA program and the Indian Adoption Projects were clearly planned genocide, essentially kidnapping and trafficking in children, as an act of war on Indian families.
Other goals? Reduce the populations. Write bad treaties then break them. Steal more land. Move who is left on to concentration camps but call it a "reservation" or reserve. Remove children on those reserves to faraway places like the Carlisle Industrial Boarding School. Erase children permanently from tribal rolls. It's how the governments of Canada and the US planned this. They kill us by military force then colonize remaining savages, then they upped the game to use paper genocide with bad or fake history, to where we are now: blood quantum sorcery.
They'll keep us divided, a Third World stuck in poverty and fighting for scraps forever.
That was the plan.
Let me start over...
Adoptees want to go home, meet family and if possible, have a relationship with tribal relatives. We were dis-enrolled essentially and the fake papers we were given are not real birth certificates, not tribal membership, and not land rights and treaty promises. (Yes, some adoptees found out they were enrolled before they were taken away.)
For an adoptee today, Tribal membership would be icing on the cake, and all of us absolutely deserve it!
Too many Tribal leaders are not traditional, as I see it. I see Tribal leaders adapted to the white man rules too well. Clearly it's about money now, not us, and not our recovery.
Why? Do they not see we had no CHOICE as children adopted out... It wasn't our fault. Is this also about money?
Are you kidding me?
Since 2004-5, I took the stance there was no awareness of the cultural genocide on Indigenous People since conquest. I also could see how too many adoptees were struggling to get their tribal membership. Too many cannot and do not approach their tribe without papers, or some kind of legal proof. Who do we call? Phone messages and requests for help go unanswered. One Native adoptee told me a judge refused her request for her adoption file in Utah, which is against federal law and what the Indian Child Welfare said is our right.
Sadly, Reserve Indians do not prioritize bringing STOLEN GENERATIONS back, and many do not know how many adoptees are out here, spread across North American and beyond.
Now tribes are disenrolling their own people? Casinos changed the landscape. Tribes are protecting their profits. Greed, as you know, is a disease.
As the governments planned this, it was to control tribal populations. And it worked.
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