ONE SMALL SACRIFICE
Lost Children of the Indian Adoptions Projects
by DeMeyer, Trace A
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ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects, a stunning new memoir by journalist Trace A. DeMeyer, explores the practice of closed adoption as a form of ethnic cleansing of North American Indians. The author opened her sealed adoption file at age 22, hoping to find birthfamily and her tribal ancestry and meet other adoptees called Split Feathers and Lost Birds.
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American Indian History, Adoptee Memoir, Indian Adoption Project, Indian Child Welfare Act, Lost Birds, Lost Ones, Split Feathers, Indian children, Biography, Adoptees, Interracial adoption, Case studies, Indians of North America, Ethnic identity, Adoption, united states, Women journalists, Women, united states, biographyTimes
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ONE SMALL SACRIFICE: Lost Children of the Indian Adoptions Projects
2010, lulu.com
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in English
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…her ground-breaking memoir includes tribal representatives testifying to the US Senate in 1976 concerning the Indian Adoption Projects, operated by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Child Welfare League of America (CWLA), when one quarter of all Indian children were removed from their families and placed into non-Indian adoptive and foster homes or orphanages… Where are these children now?
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