ONE SMALL SACRIFICE

By DeMeyer, Trace A

Subjects: Adoptees, Biography, Women, united states, biography, Adoption, united states, Case studies, American Indian History, Adoptee Memoir, Split Feathers, Ethnic identity, Indians of North America, Lost Ones, Women journalists, Interracial adoption, Indian Adoption Project, Indian children, Indian Child Welfare Act, Lost Birds

Description: …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?