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- How to Search (adoptees) (2025)
- NEW! Help for First Nations Adoptees (Canada)
- How to Open Closed Adoption Records for Native American Children (updated 2021)
- LOST CHILDREN BOOK SERIES
- Split Feathers Study
- The reunification of First Nations adoptees (2016)
- You're Breaking Up: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl #ICWA
- Indian Child Welfare Act organizations
- About the Indian Adoption Projects
- THE PLACEMENT OF AMERICAN INDIAN CHILDREN - THE NEED FOR CHANGE (1974)
- NEW: Study by Jeannine Carriere (First Nations) (2007)
- NEW STUDY: Post Adoption (Australia)
- Dr. Raven Sinclair
- Laura Briggs: Feminists and the Baby Veronica Case...
- Bibliography (updated)
- Adopt an Elder: CHERYL Locke (Oglala Lakota)
- TWO NATIONS: Navajo (Boarding School)
- GOLDWATER
- Survivor Not Victim (my interview with Von)
- GS Search Angel Site 2024
- OBC ACCESS 2023
- FREE REGISTRY (sign up at ISRR)
- Genealogy\Indian Affairs 2021
- What is ICWA (2023)
- #MMIWG MAY 2019
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ICT NEWS - October 9 2026
"Once you know the historical record of Columbus' impact on Indigenous peoples, you can't unlearn it."
– Montana State Sen. Shane Morigeau (Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes), to the Associated Press
TAKE ACTION👇
Use our tool, Give Land Back, to find which Native nations have stewarded your land, donate to local land trusts and take action on current issues.
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Reflect: What did you learn about Columbus in school? Where do you still see his story told as a "discovery"?
SOURCE: https://mailchi.mp/antiracismdaily/honor-indigenous-peoples-day?e=c849b9bb94
Saturday, October 3, 2026
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Wednesday, September 9, 2026
Saturday, August 29, 2026
ICT NEWS: August 28, 2026: Moccasin Games and more
THIS SHOW: Tribes sue government, moccasin games, youth powwow and more
Did you know you can play Moccasin Games? There is a ("How-To" book!
Ojibwe Style Moccasin Game: Makazinataagewin
(Trace helped him publish it) (it's on amazon too)
https://bookshop.org/p/books/ojibwe-style-moccasin-game-makazinataagewin/a6198df0ebdbdc24?ean=9780692851906&bkshp-astro=t
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ICT NEWS May 29, 2026
Another headline: Dakota Access Pipeline permit granted after six-year review
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum announced the development Thursday morning while presenting to the Williston Basin Petroleum Conference in Bismarck, drawing applause from the oil industry attendees.
Burgum, who became North Dakota governor in 2017 while Indigenous-led protests against the pipeline were ongoing, called the drawn-out environmental study “a cloud of uncertainty over the whole Bakken.”
read: https://www.thepublicopinion.com/story/news/2026/05/23/corps-of-engineers-grants-dakota-access-pipeline-permit-for-lake-oahe/90213735007/Saturday, May 23, 2026
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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.
Diane Tells His Name
We conclude this series & continue the conversation by naming that adoption is genocide. This naming refers to the process of genocide that breaks kinship ties through adoption & other forms of family separation & policing 🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6 pic.twitter.com/46v0mWISZ1
— Adoptee Futures CIC (@AdopteeFutures) November 29, 2022
ADOPTION TRUTH
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.

