ONE SMALL SACRIFICE

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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?

subjects: 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, biography

People: Adoptees with Native American ancestry

Places: Illinois,  Minnesota,  Wisconsin

Times: 1956-2010