In A Generation Removed,
a powerful blend of history and family stories, award-winning historian
Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government authorities in the
post–World War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from
their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive
families. By the late 1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian
children had been separated from their families.
Jacobs
also reveals the global dimensions of the phenomenon: These practices
undermined Indigenous families and their communities in Canada and
Australia as well. Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of
Indigenous families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their
children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national
investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and
Canada.
Margaret D. Jacobs, Chancellor’s
Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, is the
author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race:
Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children
in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, 2009) and Engendered Encounters: Feminism and Pueblo Cultures, 1879–1934 (Nebraska, 1999).
"[A Generation Removed is] a solid account
that calls for "a full historical reckoning" of this devastating chapter
in the treatment of Native Americans."—Kirkus
“Using
compelling stories and weighty evidence, Jacobs has uncovered a modern
and ongoing story of child-stealing in the United States. She lays out
the shocking history of Native American adoption and the good liberal
logic that enabled it in a page-turner of a book.”—Anne F. Hyde,
Bancroft Prize–winning author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800–1860
“Jacobs
brings deep scholarship to a topic of searing national and
transnational importance. In a respectful, clear voice, she guides the
reader on a journey into the most intimate corridors of settler
colonialism. This is a complex and often heart-wrenching history that
provides salutary lessons for the future.”—Ann McGrath, director of the
Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National
University and coauthor of How to Write History That People Want to Read
“Margaret
Jacobs once again demonstrates her genius for writing history that
combines penetrating analysis with heart-wrenching stories. Beautifully
written, deeply researched, this important and amazing book examines a
subject largely unknown to the public at large but all too familiar to
Indigenous peoples who have suffered the pain and indignity of child
removal.”—David Wallace Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875–1928
“A Generation Removed will find a large and interested readership among researchers, university students (of all levels), as well as the broader community of people involved in adoption. This book is also clearly written and is sophisticated without being overly specialized or jargon-ridden. . . . An admirable book, compelling to read despite the tragic stories it recounts.”—Karen Dubinsky, author of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas
I will be posting a review here as soon as I finish it! Amazon has lots of good copies (new and used)...We have been waiting for this book, believe me - this brilliant academic has found the proof of genocide via adoption, Lyslo's work and so much more............ Trace/Lara
