I want you all to read this post by Rebecca Hawkes and let me know where you land on this list and how you feel about it.
Sea Glass & Other Fragments: Five Categories of Adoptees Missing from the "Vocal Minority...: That phrase, "they don't talk about being adopted so they don't care about it." Don't use silence to dismiss thoughts...
My thoughts: Without the internet, I wouldn't even have this blog AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES or even know about the above post. I wouldn't be able to read the voices, views and written words of the adopted. In a real sense, I would not have moved from the thick dark fog to the "knowing" place where I am today. By the way, I am still changing - every - single - day. I cannot believe how different I am since I started ONE SMALL SACRIFICE to the next book TWO WORLDS. I have not been threatened by anyone to shut up about my views on adoption -- well, not yet anyway. I am not a silenced adoptee though I am sure there are people who wish I would just stop reporting on issues like the Baby Veronica case. I can see clearly that denying this horrific history only dooms us to repeat it. I can see that the Indian Adoption Projects was ANCESTRICIDE - a way to extract Indians from tribal rolls and make us American-protypes. These projects and programs erased our ancestry and identity in sealed closed adoptions. This was genocide for many tribes. I do not judge those who adopted us. I do not expect an apology from the American government or even an acknowledgment of what they did. I judge the governments and individuals who created adoption programs to remove Indian children from their families....That was an atrocity and evil... Trace
(UPDATED 4/4/2025) we will update as we publish at AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES WEBSITE - some issues with blogger are preventing this
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