In the 1950s, when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler, she was taken from her Lakota family on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her adoption papers identify her […]
The Indian Reorganization Act of 1934 was the US government’s attempt to define who “Indians” were. Among the criteria, the act set was a blood quantum, which declared that “Indians” […]
Reading Rainbow Selection – PBS Kids A traditional Iroquois celebration of the beauty and spirit of Mother Earth, as told by a contemporary Mohawk chief. For as long as anyone […]
Description “Lisa Ko’s powerful debut, The Leavers, is the winner of the 2016 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Fiction, awarded by Barbara Kingsolver for a novel that addresses issues of social [...]
An adoption expert and transracial adoptee herself examines the unique perspectives and challenges these adoptees have as they navigate multiple cultures “Your parents are so amazing for adopting [...]
If you’re the White parent of a transracially or internationally adopted child, you may have been told that if you try your best and work your hardest, good intentions and […]
Description “What does it mean to lose your roots – within your culture and family – and what happens when you find them? Nicole Chung was born severely premature, placed […]
Tragic, true, heartbreaking, astonishing… those words have been used to describe the anthology Two Worlds, the first book to expose in first-person detail the adoption practices that have [...]
When the two-time National Book Award finalist Melissa Fay Greene confided to friends that she and her husband planned to adopt a four-year-old boy from Bulgaria to add to their […]
In the thirty-five years since China instituted its One-Child Policy, 120,000 children, mostly girls, have left China through international adoption, including 85,000 to the United States. [...]
