Welcome to 30 Adoption Portraits in 30 Days, hosted by Portrait
of an Adoption. This series will feature guest posts by people with
widely varying adoption experiences and perspectives.
By Suzanne Gilbert
excerpt:
...Years later I would learn that his son, my half-brother, applied to
and attended Princeton University as a native American, drawing on our
Cherokee paternal great grandmother having grown up on the reservation
in Oklahoma. We are also of slight Iroquois descent.
Among other provisions, the ICWA returns to Indian adoptees access to
their original birth certificates with their first parents’ names on
them. Despite that, I was imperiously scolded by someone who answered
the phone at the Indian Museum in Manhattan that I had no right to
search because I, apparently as an infant, had “legally agreed to
protect” my first mother’s confidentiality.
After that, another adoptee, adoption reform activist Barbara Cohen,
put me in touch with the attorney who helped draft the ICWA. He in turn
put me in touch with a tribal historian on the Iroquois reservation in
upstate New York.
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