“A Child of the Indian Race” A Story of Return
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 Great Vanishing Act – Blood Quantum and the Future of Native Nations
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” […]
Giving Thanks – A Native American Good Morning Message
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 […]
Two Worlds – Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects
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 [...]
