Many were led to believe that their people didn’t want them and placed with white families.
Listen: ‘Dawnland’ Documents Maine’s Efforts To Reconcile Indian Child Removal
Note from LT: We had a mention of this in the anthology Stolen Generations.
The “Dawnland” Documentary Shows How the U.S. Government Took Indigenous Children From Their Homes and Placed Them With White Families | Teen Vogue
Heartbreaking.
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It truly is, Jay
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The clip is very moving, Lara. I paused on the photo of the school class. So many children.
Tragic indeed.
Best wishes, Pete.
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Pete I saw Dawnland premier on TV – very moving – so sad
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It takes a rare kind of heartless to do these things…Or maybe not so rare. In which case an equal and opposite reaction is not only necessary, but kin to justice.
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If this happened world wide, which it did in many ways, KC, we are talking psycho people robbed parents of their children. Torture.
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Cultural genocide at its finest.
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The nation builders are certainly good at it, Dr. Bramhall.
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I am a product of adoption ‘hard to place’ from 1966/1969. I understand much of the feelings associated, and the complexity of ‘who not to hate,’ when I was subjected to a lot of abuse no one talked about in school as well from those preceptors who it is my belief implicitly instilled I would never be allowed to view as peers; ludicrously euphemized from a violent racist-au-cum-progressive white family at home. I mention this as after viewing a Canadian website yesterday, which supports metis/indigenous I wondered if there is any similar active organization supporting the involvement of US government in the reunification against the recalcitrant global adoption machine to effort to help bring a voice and offer hope for living normal lives as adoptees of mixed ancestry/Native American? The website is at https://www.sixties.scoop.metisportals.ca/
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You can visit: https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com/ for US history but there is not an organization I am aware of that helps in this way with reunification or help in the US (not yet)
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