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Tribal and Japanese American descendants reclaim their history on their terms each spring during an annual pilgrimage
to the Amache incarceration site on the arid shortgrass prairie 225
miles southeast of Denver. They meet at the Amache National Historic
Site and the Sand Creek Massacre National Historic Site. Descendants say
the partnership helped to liberate them from the weight of the federal
government’s denial of fundamental rights.
“Finding
more cultural connections between our groups and our heritage has been
really healing,” said Aya Sugiura, during the blustery May cedaring
ceremony at Sand Creek. Her grandmother was among 10,000 Japanese Americans imprisoned at Amache between 1942 and 1945.
Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.
(60s Scoop Adoptee) D’Arcy J. Moses on Survival, Fashion, and Rebuilding in a Changing Industry
Fashion designer D'Arcy Moses reflects on his journey and his vision for the future.
June 22, 2026
By Chevi Rabbit, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
(ANNews) – For D’Arcy J. Moses, fashion has never simply been about clothing.
It became a path back to identity, a form of ceremony, and ultimately
a way to rebuild a life shaped by separation, loss, and resilience.
Born Dene and impacted by the Sixties Scoop, Moses was taken from his
family as an infant and raised by a non-Indigenous family on a farm
outside Camrose, Alberta.
“I’m a ’60s Scooper,” he says. “I was adopted out as an infant. The
church took me away from my mother, and I was raised by non-Native
people on a farm in Alberta.”
Growing up disconnected from his culture, he found himself drawn to
another world – one found in the glossy pages of fashion magazines. “My
mother used to have Harper’s Bazaar and Vogue
magazines, and I was enamoured by them,” he recalls. “High fashion –
haute couture – that’s what first really sparked my interest.”
Those magazines offered a glimpse of possibility. By his
mid-teens, Moses understood that creativity would define his future. “I
knew from a young age that I was creative, but I didn’t realize until my
mid-teens that I wanted to get into clothing design.”
Current fashion designs by D’Arcy Moses.
Years later, after moving to Vancouver and Toronto, that childhood
fascination began to take shape professionally. Along the way,
Indigenous Elders recognized his talent and introduced him to the art of
regalia making. “In my early twenties I was in Vancouver. I had some
Elders take me under their wings and introduce me to regalia making.”
While refining his craft, Moses worked relentlessly to support
himself. “I worked two or three jobs at a time – waiting tables, working
in a sawmill, a lumber mill of all things. And in the evenings and
weekends, I would just create.”
That persistence eventually paid off. “I had a few lucky breaks,” he
says. “One of them was the Toronto Festival of Fashion, and the next day
one of my garments ended up on the cover of The Globe and Mail, which was really big news at the time.”
Darlene and Mervin Petit share a passion for teaching traditional ways of life to others. (Campbell Stevenson/SRC)
CBC's road trip series Land of Living Stories explores
inspiring stories of community spirit from across Saskatchewan. In our
latest visit, CBC-Radio Canada hit the road to Buffalo Narrows. This is
one story in a multi-part series from that community.
WARNING: This story contains details of abuse.
When
Darlene Petit first moved back to Buffalo Narrows, Sask., she wouldn't
eat or even touch a wild rabbit, though her husband Mervin often went
out to set snares. When he would bring her onto his boat, she'd take a
book and read while he fished.
But their relationship over the
years has reconnected her to a life and culture she almost lost, when
she was taken from her family in Buffalo Narrows as part of the Sixties Scoop.
"Mervin
was a big, big influence in my life, teaching me my cultural
background," the 62-year-old said, explaining how her husband showed her
the joys of catching their own food, from rabbit to wild chickens to
moose. Thanks to him, she reconnected with the traditions of her Métis
and First Nations ancestors.
"I started fishing and learning how to catch fish, and now I can outfish anybody," she said, laughing.
Mervin
Petit grew up fishing and hunting; within half an hour, he pulls up 30
fish in a net. It's a passion he's passed on to his wife, Darlene. (Campbell Stevenson/SRC)
Now
the pair can often be seen sitting quietly in their boat, watching the
bears and deer in the distance, or setting a net and hauling up fish
they share with others in the village.
It's a fight to keep these
cultural traditions alive, as people are losing touch with ways of life
that go back hundreds of years, said 61-year-old Mervin. That's why he's
so keen to help anyone who's interested learn how to hunt, fish and
prepare food.
"I want everybody to feel that, all the young
people, all the older people that don't know this stuff, I want them all
to understand this stuff and keep doing it," he says.
The pair
say they don't need to rely on groceries, but instead eat the wild game
and fish they catch themselves. It's a self-reliance they want to pass
on to future generations.
"You're gonna need this more than ever
in the coming years because of all the stuff that's going on now in the
world; it's so expensive living," Mervin says.
WATCH | This couple are dedicated to sharing traditions and love for the land:
Sharing traditional knowledge strengthens Buffalo Narrows power couple's bond
Darlene
and Mervin Petit have been together for 43 years, and have grown closer
through sharing their love of living off the land. Now they hope to
pass that knowledge on to others in the community.
Scooped from childhood
While
Mervin's memories are deeply rooted in fishing and trapping, Darlene
was taken from her family when she was three. She was relocated to
Lebret, Sask, 780 kilometres south of Buffalo Narrows, and bounced from
foster home to foster home.
It was a traumatizing time.
"I
was bathed in hot Javex water and things like that," she said. "And then
when you're in foster homes, you're abused by other children that are
in the home."
Darlene
Petit, pictured front row, second from left, is seen here with her
siblings. They were separated as children by the Sixties Scoop. (Submitted by Darlene Petit)
Fortunately,
her mother successfully fought to regain custody of her children, and
Darlene was finally reunited with her family when she was 12.
New research from the University of Kansas has found that the landback
movement, in which land is returned to its original occupants, has grown
rapidly across the country as well.
Charlotte Ross, left, and her son Steven Ross. (Submitted by Charlotte Ross)
Steven Ross and his mother Charlotte Ross have followed different educational paths, but both are celebrating graduations.
"My mom was a major inspiration in my life to go to university," Steven said.
"She
started with a rough childhood and she climbed all the way to the point
where she is now and for me that's a great inspiration."
He
recently graduated from the University of Saskatchewan's Indigenous
Teachers Education Program (ITEP) in Saskatoon with an education degree
in kinesiology and is already doing interviews for teaching positions in
the province.
Both Steven and his mother are members of the Montreal Lake Cree Nation, about 220 kilometres north of Saskatoon.
His
mother Charlotte graduated from the University of Victoria with a PhD
in Indigenous language revitalization through the Department of
Indigenous education where she focused her studies on adult Cree silent
speakers.
Silent speakers are those who understand a language but
they can't speak it themselves — they usually respond with one-worded
answers or give an English response, according to Charlotte.
"What were the impacts, why was this the case?" she said.
"It came down to trauma and having safety in language learning."
She
has helped develop a language app with Montreal Lake Cree Nation and is
assisting Cree speaker Senapan Thunder and her company Wicihsok, that
is also working on Cree language revitalization.
Charlotte
was the first person in her family to go to university and she
graduated in 1988 from the University of Saskatchewan with a bachelor of
arts in Native Studies.
"I never thought I would go to university because I didn't know what it was," she said.
"There were very few role models as with most [First Nations] communities."
She
later learned how to read and write in Cree under the late teacher
Freda Ahenakew, who assisted with Cree language revitalization and
retention in Saskatchewan.
'No excuses' growing up
Charlotte
credits her parents for instilling education as an integral part of her
life while growing up in the small northern Saskatchewan town of
Molanosa, on the northeast corner of Montreal Lake.
She had no reason to miss school as it was right across the highway from her home.
"We lived literally a stone's throw away," she said.
"There
were no excuses that it was too far, if it was snowing or raining, even
in -30 degree weather, all you had to do was open your door and roll
out."
Charlotte calls her father a "self-taught independent
entrepreneur" who knew how to organize and mobilize. Over the years, he
helped to build the roads and highways as a construction worker and also
hunted, trapped, was a competitive dog sledder and commercial
fisherman. Her mother, she says, was the rock of their home who lovingly
raised the children, cooked, cleaned and sewed up her children's
clothes when they were damaged.
"My
parents were both not able to go to school but highly valued education
as they knew it would help us in the future to open doors of opportunity
that were never offered to them," she said.
When Charlotte was
14, she and her younger brother were part of the Sixties Scoop, taken
from their home and put into the province's foster care system for four
years.
She says it was during this time she found her voice to speak up for her family.
"I
was able to advocate for myself and my younger brother to not be
separated and to also remain in La Ronge where some of my siblings were
living," said Charlotte.
Sports and study
While
Charlotte's upbringing was disrupted by the foster care system, her son
Steven's upbringing flourished. He played hockey, soccer and junior
football at Rosetown Central High School in Rosetown, about 120
kilometres southwest of Saskatoon.
That continued into university,
where he helped lead a number of senior male sports groups in
basketball and track and field, and now into his teaching career. He
shifted his studies to kinesiology with a strong focus in Indigenous
land-based learning.
"I always talked about being a teacher in Grade 3, 4 or 5," he said.
"I
never really took it seriously but it did eventually come to fruition. I
wanted to be in education because I wanted to make a better future for
our world."
Charlotte's message to other Indigenous families who
want to go to university is just go for it, but make sure to do the work
and ask for help when you need it.
"You have to reach out for help. Don't be shy, don't be ashamed to ask for help," said Charlotte.
EAST
LANSING, Mich. (News 10) - The clock is ticking for universities and
museums to return thousands of Native American remains and artifacts
from their collections.
NAGPRA was updated in 2024 and now requires institutions to finish returning Native American artifacts by 2029.
“There
were many years when there was a provision in the law about being
culturally unidentifiable. And so, this was a substantial barrier for
tribes to achieve repatriation,” said Matthew Bussler. “The January 2024
new NAGPRA rule that came out removed that provision, and so that has
made this a lot more achievable for tribes to have that work
accomplished.”
While Michigan has made progress, thousands of ancestral remains and artifacts in the state still haven’t been returned.
In Michigan, of the more than 3,200 reported ancestral remains taken from Michigan:
2,638 Native American remains were made available for return
At least 609 Native Americans were not made available for return
The
University of Michigan Museum of Anthropology, with the 25th largest
collection of unrepatriated Native American remains in the U.S., says it has made 54% of the more than 1,600 remains taken from the state available for return:
904 remains available for return
773 remains not made available for return
The University of Michigan has made 2,478 associated funerary objects available for return out of more than 11,200.
Michigan State University has made 100% of the 544 Native American remains and 84,900 funerary objects available for return to tribes.
“We
have a really good unit on campus... that our doing the best with the
resources they have to make sure that they get those ceremonial items,
those cultural items, and those ancestral remains back to our tribes,”
said Dr. Kevin Leonard,
the Interim Director of the Native American Institute at Michigan State
University. “I would like to say we are ahead of the curve, but there’s
still work that we have to do.”
Dr.
Leonard describes seeing Native American ancestral artifacts in museums
like going to a cemetery, digging up a grave, and taking whatever you
want from inside.
“They’ve basically
grave robbed,” Leonard said. “You’ve disturbed their resting sites and
taken things that aren’t yours. Those are our ceremonial and our funeral
objects, and they need to be in our communities, and those remains of
our ancestors need to be returned so they can be laid to rest and aren’t
in a box or a display case in a museum.”
Dr.
Leonard encourages people to speak with the native community more
often. He said, “you don’t have to dig our grave sites” to know the
history.
If institutions fail to comply or meet the NAGPRA 2029 deadline, they could face financial penalties.
Haaland’sFederal Indian Boarding School Initiative also included in-depth reports
on the schools’ multigenerational impacts. Nearly 1,000 Native children
were buried at 65 different school sites, the federal government
reported. Atrocities occurring within school walls ranged from physical
and sexual abuse to failed attempts at cultural genocide, the report
found.
Native people have been written out of the American story."
Without us, you don’t know what happened.
We’ve all been told the American
Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But that’s not
what the Declaration of Independence says. According to our founders, in
their own words, what they were most upset about was Native Americans.
How did we all miss that? Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk
(Western Shoshone) to talk about how hunger for Indigenous land drove
the Revolution. Welcome to First America, the true story of how the
United States came to be, and how our current political moment was 250
years in the making.
Marie Miller always thought she was an orphan, but she reunited with a sister she never knew she had earlier this year.
Marie Miller always believed she was an orphan.
It
was only later the Calgary woman learned she was taken as a baby from
her grandmother’s arms as part of the ’60s Scoop in Winnipeg.
On Tuesday, she finally met the sister she never knew she had—Sally Tripp.
“I can’t believe she’s here,” said Miller, now 71.
“She’s not going home, (but) if she is going home, I’m going home with her.”
“It’s really happening. (It’s) unbelievable,” said Tripp, 72.
The
’60s Scoop was a time from the 1950s through the 1980s where Canadian
government policy allowed for the removal of an estimated 20,000 to
30,000 Indigenous children from their families.
They were then placed in non-Indigenous homes.
At just two years old, Miller was put in a foster home in Selkirk, Man.
The home she ended up in was less than 40 minutes from where her birth family lived.
“I went to school with some of my relatives and didn’t even know it,” said Miller.
“I was just very alone; I was pretty much on my own.’
Marie Miller
One of her earliest recollections is playing with a doll in a big house with a sunken living room at age nine.
Miller described her childhood with her adoptive parents as unpleasant.
“They were not kind to me growing up at all,” said Miller.
“They were very standoffish toward me.
“There was no kindness or warmth at all; I never felt it.”
Around 12 years old, she knew she “didn’t belong” in her adoptive home.
“It was just a feeling I needed to be with my own people,” she said.
“They would constantly tell me that I was nothing but an Indian and that I was never going to be anything.
“I knew early on I was not comfortable in this home.”
She
struggled for years to connect with her birth family via adoption
records or any information she could glean from her adoptive parents.
“When
all this came out—that it was wrong to take these children in the first
place—that’s when records started to disappear and any of the illegal
adoptions or shady adoptions were covered up,” said Miller.
After some reluctance, her husband convinced her to use Ancestry.ca for DNA testing.
After sending in her information, a cousin popped up, and they connected.
She
then took her birth certificate’s long version, where she matched an
address in Winnipeg where her birth mother lived after she was born.
“My cousin almost stopped breathing,” said Miller.
“She said, ‘That’s where I used to live. That was our grandparents’ house.’”
The home remained in the family.
Miller was given a list of potential family members who all turned out to be related.
While connecting with her cousin, she verified blood relations to Miller’s father.
It was one of her cousin’s sisters who told Miller she had a sister.
“I said, ‘Give me her number,’” said Miller.
Miller connected with Tripp on Jan. 17, and the two learned they previously crossed paths.
“We both were at the Winnipeg roller rink at the same time; we both went to Midtown Buffet at the same time,” said Miller.
Sally Tripp
For Tripp, it has also been a welcome moment meeting her younger sister.
Tripp
has extensive knowledge of the family history and says both she and
Miller were put in adoptive care in 1955 by their mother, who has since
passed.
Their father came to rescue both from adoptive care before they were put up for adoption.
Then,
as Tripp tells the story, the authorities came to their home and
decided the family could look after her, but the family was not fit to
handle Miller and took her from her grandmother’s arms.
Sisters Marie Miller (right) and Sally Tripp were separated when they were babies in the ’60s Scoop.
Tripp has been looking for Miller for a long time, and Tuesday’s gathering in Strathmore, Alta., brought her closure.
“That first phone call was over 3.5 hours,” said Tripp.
“To find her after all this time. And, you know, the sad part is she didn’t know she had a family.”
The two sisters are set to head to a family reunion in Selkirk on June 28, where they’ll meet with dozens of family members.
“I can’t wait; I got the camper packed,” said Miller.
The two share other half-siblings, but they are each other’s only full siblings.
Miller does have an appointment to get her status card while attending the family reunion, for which Tripp will vouch for her.
In the summer of 2022, Jasper Young Bear, a member of the Mandan,
Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, invited three friends from outside of his
community to a unique ceremonial offering that took place in a medicine
lodge on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, North Dakota. Across
three days, Jasper tells his people’s Creation Story, a story as old as
time immemorial itself. Previously preserved and passed down
the generations in an oral tradition that Jasper was born into, his
reasons for committing it to film for the first time in history soon
become apparent, and are as urgent and pertinent as the story itself. The
result is a film like no other. Primarily a kind of ethnographic record
that will preserve this story for the ages, it has now been
thoughtfully married to a cinematic experience, to create a new kind of
genre — a medicine film.
Press conference for missing Webequie member Kelsey Anderson, who was
reported missing on May 9 and whose body was recovered from Thunder
Bay’s Neebing-McIntyre Floodway.
Indigenous families call for permanent search team in Thunder Bay
By: Jon Thompson, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Ricochet
Indigenous searchers are calling for the creation of a permanent search and rescue team in Thunder Bay, where the bodies of four missing persons have been found over
the past two weeks. Meanwhile, Thunder Bay’s police chief and the
region’s First Nations leaders traded barbs on social media, amid
criticism of the force’s actions during the search. Nishnawbe Aski
Nation Grand Chief Alvin Fiddler and Thunder Bay Police Service chief
Darcy Fleury exchanged critical social media posts on Wednesday and
Thursday. Fiddler accused the police of instructing searchers not to look in a set of abandoned grain elevators.
Members of
the Hadiya’dagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre set
up a display at the Thistle entrance of the Library highlighting First
Nations, Métis and Inuit cultures and histories. This display marks
National Indigenous Histories Month, and Indigenous Peoples Awareness
Week.
The display includes a variety of items including
Wampum belts; a drum and rattle; beaded gloves and moccasins; seal and
rabbit pelts; various Métis sashes; Inuit embroidery and carvings, and a
variety of other tools and handcrafted items.
Members of the Brock University and wider
community are invited to a week full of learning, reflection and
crafting during Indigenous Peoples Awareness Week, hosted by the
Hadiya’dagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre beginning
June 23rd. Students, staff, faculty and community members can visit brocku.universitytickets.com to see a full list of events and reserve their tickets now.
Be sure to follow Hadiya’dagénhahs First Nations, Métis and Inuit Student Centre on Instagram and Facebook to be the first to hear about events, news and updates.
America
marks 250 years of independence on the 4th of July this year, and
observances
file photo, Trace
will be wide-ranging. That includes those who are the
descendants of America’s original inhabitants.
By the time
European settlers arrived, historians estimate more than 10 million
Indigenous people inhabited the land now called America. In the
centuries that followed, battles, diseases, diminishing resources and
forced land removal led to the rapid decline of the Native population.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the population of Native Americans
is currently under 7 million people — only 2% of the nation’s population.
As Native people continue to face land disputes and the highest poverty rate in the U.S., “Closer Look”
assembled a Native American panel to reflect on the country at 250
years and offer perspectives as the nation reaches this milestone.
Christine Nayler seen in this November 2025
photo. She was 15 when her newborn daughter was taken away from her in
1982. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Sharif Hassan
By Sharif Hassan, The Canadian Press| Jun 1, 2026
Christine Nayler spent only four days with her newborn daughter
after giving birth at a hospital north of Newmarket, Ont., in 1982,
before her baby was taken away from her.
Then a 15-year-old expectant mother living in Toronto, Nayler was
sent to a relative’s home north of the city to have her baby. She was
expected to return home without the child.
While she was being repeatedly told she couldn’t keep the baby,
Nayler was still hopeful that her family would change their mind.
But they didn’t.
“I always say that the day that I left the hospital without her was
my death day because I feel like I died that day,” said Nayler, who now
lives in Barrie, Ont.
“When your child is alive and she’s just taken from you for no other
reason than you’re young and you weren’t even given a chance to be a
mother, like, that changes everything that you feel about the world.”
Nayler was among hundreds of thousands of unwed mothers who were
coerced and forced to give up their children for adoptions in
post-Second World War Canada.
Decades after giving up her child, Nayler has launched a petition,
asking the federal government to acknowledge its role and apologize for
being part of the unjust system.
Her petition has garnered more than 600 signatures from across Canada
and was tabled in the House of Commons last week, giving the government
45 days to provide a written response.
“I want the government to acknowledge the harm that was done to us and the role that they played in it,” she said.
In response to questions about the petition on Saturday, the Office
of the Minister of Jobs and Families told The Canadian Press the
government is grateful to those who have shared their experiences.
“Canadians have carried this history with them and the profound and
lasting impacts that forced adoption practices have had on mothers,
adoptees, and families,” it said in a written statement, adding that the
government is committed to addressing the legacy of this issue.
“Canada recognizes that this was a systemic issue affecting people
across the country. Important legal safeguards, including Charter
protections and international human rights commitments, now help ensure
that such practices cannot occur today.”
The latest play written by southern Manitoban duo Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold is Rattle, a story rooted in the inherited legacy of the ’60s Scoop.
Based on the stories of Robert Doucette and Roberta MacKinnon —
friends and students of the playwriting pair — this play from
Brandon-based Root Sky Theatre, directed by Charlene van Buekenhout and
Cory Wojcik, opens at the Asper Centre for Theatre and Film on Wednesday
night.
Rattle is the fourth product of the Racine-Lakevold playwriting partnership, following Misty Lake, Stretching Hide and 2024’s Owl Calling.
LEIF NORMAN PHOTO: From left: Alissa Watson is Lina,
Dezarae Meade is Crystal and Josh Ranville is Dan in the play Rattle by
Darrell Racine and Dale Lakevold.
Each play by the twosome thus far has been a heartfelt study of
issues facing Indigenous Peoples in Canada, using history as a mirror to
understand the country’s legacy of both immense harm and attempted
reconciliation.
A co-production with local collective Theatre Incarnate — Brenda McLean and Christopher Sobczak — Rattle was awarded the best full-length play award in Theatre BC’s Canadian National Playwriting Competition.
Earlier this year, Racine, a professor of native studies at Brandon University, also launched Stolen Science, a
podcast about the “largely unacknowledged contributions of Indigenous
Peoples to Western European science between 1670 and 1870,” according to
the university.
Rattle is set on a North End street in Winnipeg where
friends Bobbie (Melanie Badger) and Dan (Josh Ranville) are finding
where they belong.
Meanwhile, Bobbie’s son Jordan (Mackenzie Wojcik, Cory’s son) forges a
bond with Dan’s kid Crystal (Dezarae Meade), who hopes against hope
that she won’t have to move to the south end.
LEIF NORMAN PHOTO: From left: Dezarae Meade (Crystal) and Mackenzie Wojcik (Jordan) forge a bond as the kids of members of a found family.
Dan and Bobbie met when Bobbie aged out of care, learning to relate to one another as found family.
The character of Bobbie is based on MacKinnon, who was taken away
from her biological family at the age of two. Adopted by a Mennonite
family, Bobbie is always wondering not only where she came from, but why
she was taken away, the actor explains.
“Any moments where the past is brought up it’s just too painful to confront those things,” Badger says.
Fateful interactions with the next generation and her ancestors help
Bobbie find her truth, she adds. “In that moment it’s her healing
moment, you can really feel that part of the play where she found her
place,” adds Badger, an actor whose most recent performance was in 2019,
in Theatre by the River’s The Hours That Remain.
Badger’s first performance was in Douglas Nepinak’s Crisis in Oka, Manitoba.
That play — staged at Prairie Theatre Exchange last year as part of the
second annual Kiyanaan Festival, produced by Van Buekenhout and Philip
Geller — has served as an inspiration for both Lakevold and Racine.
LEIF NORMAN PHOTO: Josh Ranville, who plays Dan in Rattle, as been acting since he was a child.
“I’d like to think of it as blood memory as an actor, that’s the
choice I made (in approaching the role of Bobbie), is that instant
connection to her mother, her memory, her roots, her place,” says
Badger, who works for the Winnipeg Foundation and Manitobah Storyboot
School, a national charity offering cultural craftmaking workshops.
The play opens Wednesday with nightly performances to Saturday beginning at 7:30 p.m. Matinees run Saturday and Sunday at 2 p.m.
The production is sponsored by the Riverton & District Friendship
Centre and received funding from the National Sixties Scoop Healing
Foundation of Canada, along with both Canada and Manitoba arts councils.
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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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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.
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