tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-69699753446232612024-03-17T12:00:07.001-04:00AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEESa blog for and by American Indian and First Nations adoptees who are called a STOLEN GENERATION #WhoTellsTheStoryMatters #WhyICWAMattersLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.comBlogger2481125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-6376276139137994912024-03-14T12:14:00.004-04:002024-03-14T12:14:21.890-04:00Fair Wind<p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">This is a reminder, you are ANCIENT and sacred and sovereign... remember...</span><iframe frameborder="0" height="360" src="https://youtube.com/embed/U5d3vkMDp5I?si=LNQeIEbdSREgIL92" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/U5d3vkMDp5I/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-36498087771665844142024-03-11T14:33:00.003-04:002024-03-11T14:33:25.194-04:00BIA at 200 years<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02_PUPSRWuq5RRq8vWP8xw7zML2a0sLjZpyWdPHaSXDjAPNXlCTP1CHBt017a3DSAR2TAQcHEYKHmpQFPgpeeDSAhx5aA58y1uUw3vJG7nWJDxpUGUXBDc7o69JihpMa9sOK4Z7AJATuvi2rvCWUCSugGdXu8B95uVSNRXJu0aQEk69N7OaD6I2u-aA/s1600/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20at%2014-31-17%20The%20future%20of%20the%20Bureau%20of%20Indian%20Affairs.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="437" data-original-width="1600" height="174" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi02_PUPSRWuq5RRq8vWP8xw7zML2a0sLjZpyWdPHaSXDjAPNXlCTP1CHBt017a3DSAR2TAQcHEYKHmpQFPgpeeDSAhx5aA58y1uUw3vJG7nWJDxpUGUXBDc7o69JihpMa9sOK4Z7AJATuvi2rvCWUCSugGdXu8B95uVSNRXJu0aQEk69N7OaD6I2u-aA/w640-h174/Screenshot%202024-03-11%20at%2014-31-17%20The%20future%20of%20the%20Bureau%20of%20Indian%20Affairs.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">To go even further back one hundred years. The Bureau of Indian Affairs
was in stark contrast in 1824 when federal Indian policy was rooted in
war, blood, and death. It’s not surprising that the bureau was first
planted in the War Department before being rooted permanently in the
U.S. Department of the Interior in 1849.</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://ictnews.org/news/the-future-of-the-bureau-of-indian-affairs" target="_blank">READ </a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-2399328240230291312024-03-10T13:28:00.001-04:002024-03-10T13:30:51.709-04:00‘Appalling’: AFN Chief says Indigenous youth shouldn’t be placed in for-profit care<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="372" scrolling="no" src="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10338011/" width="670"></iframe> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10335930/afn-chief-says-indigenous-youth-shouldnt-be-placed-in-for-profit-care/" target="_blank">SOURCE</a><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><div style="font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px;"><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/assembly-of-first-nations/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Assembly of First Nations</a> National Chief <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/cindy-woodhouse/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak</a> says First Nations children shouldn’t be placed with <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/profiting-off-kids/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">for-profit companies</a> in Ontario’s child-welfare system.</span></p><span class="proton-image-anchor" data-proton-remote="remote-334" style="font-family: Merriweather; height: 1px; width: 1px;"><img alt="" src="https://mail.proton.me/api/core/v4/images?Url=https%3A%2F%2Fd21y75miwcfqoq.cloudfront.net%2F70c8fc80&DryRun=0&UID=v7yurlpwklb76yu65qt675wbgxdv6xyi" style="height: 1px; width: 1px;" /></span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">She made her remarks in an exclusive interview with Global News after the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/profiting-off-kids/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">broadcast and publication</a> online of a year-long, multi-part <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10320532/indigenous-kids-allegedly-called-cash-cows-of-ontarios-child-welfare-system/" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">investigation</a> that revealed allegations of targeting and mistreatment of <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/indigenous" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Indigenous</a> youth by some group homes.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“That’s appalling to hear,” Chief Woodhouse Nepinak told Global News. “We’ve always known that our kids were a target.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I don’t think our children should be for-profit at all,” she said.</span></p><blockquote><div><div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s time that we give our children back to the people that have cared for them for thousands and thousands of years.”</span></span></p> <div>
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our kids have been taken away since residential schools, day schools,
the ’60s Scoop and now the child welfare system,” she said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
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communities in Northern Ontario and Nunavut are allegedly targeted by
some for-profit group home companies because their owners can charge
more for Indigenous children or because the kids provide a steady source
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or abuse or who have complex needs.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">These agencies serve some of
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societies (CAS) across Ontario revealed that northern Indigenous
agencies are paying higher daily fees for such care than their
non-Indigenous counterparts.</span></p> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">On average, northern Indigenous
children’s aid societies paid 26 per cent more per day for a child to
live in a group home, not run by a CAS, compared with their
non-Indigenous counterparts between 2012/2013 and 2021/2022.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">This
discrepancy meant Indigenous children’s agencies in northern Ontario
spent nearly $28 million more over 10 years than if they’d been charged
the average rate paid by non-Indigenous agencies across the province.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Chief Woodhouse Nepinak called the situation “disgusting.”</span></p><blockquote><div><div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It’s hurtful to communities, it’s hurtful to families, it’s hurtful to the next generation.”</span></p> <div>
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former workers from group homes across Ontario who said that staff and
management at some companies allegedly referred to Indigenous youth as
“cash cows,” “money-makers,” or even “paycheques.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It’s
disgusting. … How could you label children like that?” Chief Woodhouse
Nepinak said. “They’re our children. They’re First Nations children. And
to treat them less than is horrific.”<i> </i></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">She said child
welfare should be under the jurisdiction of First Nations, pointing to a
recent Supreme Court of Canada ruling that upheld the federal
government’s Indigenous child welfare law.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">VIDEOS AND MORE: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10335930/afn-chief-says-indigenous-youth-shouldnt-be-placed-in-for-profit-care/" target="_blank">https://globalnews.ca/news/10335930/afn-chief-says-indigenous-youth-shouldnt-be-placed-in-for-profit-care </a></span></p><div data-shortcode="tp_video_miniplayer"><section data-carousel-per-view="2" data-video-carousel-init="true" data-video-carousel-play-inline="true"><div><br /><div>
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Yikes!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I uploaded a <b>new and expanded edition</b> of the Kindle ebook and paperback<span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> today</span> on Amazon. The paperback is not "live" yet - so it's not available today. (I had one correction to make about SCALPS and added even more history.)<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The new size will allow this book to be sold on Bookshop and purchased by libraries.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">NEW ISBN: 979-821838400-5 <br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">(With a lower price for the paperback: $15.00)</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">I also redesigned the paperback book cover... it's been a wacky crazy day. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Want to read the pdf? Shoot me an email: tracelara@pm.me</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">XOX</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Trace </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">p.s. - the first edition, if you have one, is now a collector item! 😁</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisvnXtajAtlr6TBkMx52IHn29FlRU9kKWM5HqAaR3MnjSCFGtkB9WYF_ICoUFq84np22dTwHQ2LflY3ctOhN3ZTH3qMjdUPU38yL-ruKQQsdrYEgLR-GggxlYYs961OtJARneOVk2MN6QdmPbRSjhHn9U3xdmdxXs6mnvpdqP223IIR4HSv9q0wWk7tw/s1750/ADI%20resized%209798218345891%20Hentz%20Trace%20L%20Books.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1750" data-original-width="1400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisvnXtajAtlr6TBkMx52IHn29FlRU9kKWM5HqAaR3MnjSCFGtkB9WYF_ICoUFq84np22dTwHQ2LflY3ctOhN3ZTH3qMjdUPU38yL-ruKQQsdrYEgLR-GggxlYYs961OtJARneOVk2MN6QdmPbRSjhHn9U3xdmdxXs6mnvpdqP223IIR4HSv9q0wWk7tw/s320/ADI%20resized%209798218345891%20Hentz%20Trace%20L%20Books.jpg" width="256" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br />Thank you for reading this blog, too. YOU ROCK!</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">(👇Share Buttons Below)<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-36649054709139880322024-02-28T12:34:00.003-05:002024-02-28T12:34:48.550-05:00“Because it’s who I am, and I have more to do.”<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Vceh9tqmmXra3P5Bch9ln0atYa_sq39Bb5e4sIQLhQ2VrSq2NXbQ2-RHV9VbYhzuKjfRYrRu2lqQf6nPO0ZdcNrlF7YEYZlHrFyLSFteG8rJfbW6aIefOTUp70d1OLp9V5kx-ZqlPBSQ5bNacrv2LSTwFeZJT-t7jJIXuOnIH9yOaLONoXVvjBHpaA/s652/Screenshot%202024-02-28%20at%2012-28-42%20Seneca%20Nation%20Elder%20Reflects%20on%20a%2051-year%20Child%20Welfare%20Career.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="536" data-original-width="652" height="526" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3Vceh9tqmmXra3P5Bch9ln0atYa_sq39Bb5e4sIQLhQ2VrSq2NXbQ2-RHV9VbYhzuKjfRYrRu2lqQf6nPO0ZdcNrlF7YEYZlHrFyLSFteG8rJfbW6aIefOTUp70d1OLp9V5kx-ZqlPBSQ5bNacrv2LSTwFeZJT-t7jJIXuOnIH9yOaLONoXVvjBHpaA/w640-h526/Screenshot%202024-02-28%20at%2012-28-42%20Seneca%20Nation%20Elder%20Reflects%20on%20a%2051-year%20Child%20Welfare%20Career.png" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p class="has-drop-cap"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Seneca Nation citizen Terry Cross is widely
known as the founding executive director of the <b>National Indian Child
Welfare Association</b>, launched in the early 1980s, and continues to serve
as a senior adviser to the organization assisting tribes with
preventing child abuse and neglect. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">These days, Cross, 71, spends time taking long walks on the Nedonna
Beach with his wife, Kristin, he said in a lengthy interview with The
Imprint. But he admitted that he’s “not very good” at staying retired,
and so his work with Indigenous children and families through the
organization known as NICWA continues — in large part due to his
optimism about the future.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">"...For those who’ve gone to boarding school, or those who’ve been reared
in foster care, so many of our people were deprived of the opportunity
to learn really positive ways of raising children. We need to be able to
restore that and to give them the opportunity, because they’ve been
told by the mainstream child welfare system that there’s something wrong
with them. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: medium;">"Our approach is to say, ‘Here’s the teachings of our ancestors, many
of you have missed this, and you have a right to learn it as an
Indigenous person.’ Then you decide how you want your children raised.
But the essence of those tribal teachings remains the same, because they
have been handed down from time immemorial.</span></p></blockquote><p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/seneca-nation-elder-reflects-on-a-51-year-child-welfare-career/247705" target="_blank">READ </a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-79899668175640091562024-02-24T10:10:00.002-05:002024-02-28T12:36:37.038-05:00Reunification and ICWA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-Qh1U1t-mX-T1U77-I71hZDL0tBooSxeQhg0UCvHSwPbqpk-haq39LMjdrGsFbcDEbyXnTgC-RpomYHoe_evEAKCnbNSHPw-_r1CesedWqdz0nIO55qFJ4OPJW-gfX7c3O_6W8WKFPU5c2JyvHJtdH5zfmB1v7DB8hodEY_h4inYTcSTI_3HOhQ8Vg/s813/Screenshot%202024-02-24%20at%2010-06-47%20Montana%20Free%20Press%20Putting%20the%20Indian%20Child%20Welfare%20Act%20into%20action.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="813" data-original-width="763" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp-Qh1U1t-mX-T1U77-I71hZDL0tBooSxeQhg0UCvHSwPbqpk-haq39LMjdrGsFbcDEbyXnTgC-RpomYHoe_evEAKCnbNSHPw-_r1CesedWqdz0nIO55qFJ4OPJW-gfX7c3O_6W8WKFPU5c2JyvHJtdH5zfmB1v7DB8hodEY_h4inYTcSTI_3HOhQ8Vg/w600-h640/Screenshot%202024-02-24%20at%2010-06-47%20Montana%20Free%20Press%20Putting%20the%20Indian%20Child%20Welfare%20Act%20into%20action.png" width="600" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://indianz.com/News/2024/02/21/montana-free-press-putting-the-indian-child-welfare-act-into-action/" target="_blank">READ HERE</a></span><p></p><p><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/" style="font-family: Merriweather;">montanafreepress.org</a></p><p>**</p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-2ba035c9-7fff-6fc3-601f-e20ab943b614">👉The Biden administration has </span><a href="https://fosteringmediaconnections.us1.list-manage.com/track/click?u=431f9a8d6f6d4812ee0e8aa67&id=5281cc5c1a&e=7032c75ed4" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #2e846d; font-weight: bold; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank">introduced plans</a>
for new data collection on how well states comply with the Indian Child
Welfare Act, potentially resolving part of a federal court challenge on
the subject. <br />
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<span id="docs-internal-guid-2ba035c9-7fff-6fc3-601f-e20ab943b614">The
new proposed elements are “critical to being able to assess whether
states are in compliance with the provisions of the ICWA,” Angelique
Day, an associate professor at the University of Washington School of
Social Work, told Youth Services Insider. “ICWA can only fully be
realized as the gold standard for child welfare if we are following it
according to legislative intent.”</span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-90063469712761068312024-02-24T10:01:00.002-05:002024-02-24T10:01:25.590-05:00(FILM) Gene Boy Came Home by Alanis Obomswain<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><i><b>Gene Boy Came Home</b></i> is a 2007 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Documentary_film" title="Documentary film">documentary film</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> filmmaker <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alanis_Obomsawin" title="Alanis Obomsawin">Alanis Obomsawin</a>, produced by the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a>.
</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The film tells the story of Eugene "Gene Boy" Benedict, who is a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations_in_Canada" title="First Nations in Canada">First Nations</a> person raised on the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odanak,_Quebec" title="Odanak, Quebec">Odanak Indian Reserve</a>, approximately an hour and a half east of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montreal" title="Montreal">Montreal</a>. He left home at age 15 to work in construction in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York City</a>. At 17, adrift and beginning to lose his way, he accepted a dare and enlisted in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps" title="United States Marine Corps">United States Marine Corps</a>. A few months later, he was on his way to the frontlines of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>.</span>
</p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The film recounts Benedict's childhood, when he was taken from
his family (adopted out) then sent to school in Ontario. In his teens, he left his reserve
to in then high steel construction in the United States. On a dare from
his step-father, he enlisted in the U.S. military and went through <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recruit_training" title="Recruit training">boot camp</a> at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parris_Island" title="Parris Island">Parris Island</a>.
The film combines his recollections of experiences there with scenes of
a contemporary boot camp, to show how little has changed in the way
young men are broken down and remade as soldiers.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Loreto_3-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Boy_Came_Home#cite_note-Loreto-3">[3]</a></sup></span>
</p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Benedict was assigned as a sniper and scout at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Da_Nang" title="Da Nang">Da Nang</a>. During his time in Vietnam, he saw friends killed and maimed, and found himself fighting <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietcong" title="Vietcong">Vietcong</a> as young as six years old. Benedict was also sprayed with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agent_Orange" title="Agent Orange">Agent Orange</a>,
though he and his fellow soldiers were never warned of its hazards.
After his military tour was over, he returned home only to find that,
like many Vietnam vets, he was "spat upon" and "treated like the enemy."
He learned to hide the fact that he served in Vietnam, and felt
abandoned by the government. Afflicted with <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-traumatic_stress" title="Post-traumatic stress">post-traumatic stress</a>, he would experience flashbacks and bad dreams for the rest of his life.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Loreto_3-2"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Boy_Came_Home#cite_note-Loreto-3">[3]</a></sup></span>
</p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Looking for some relief from his trauma, he decided to return to
his home reserve in Odanak. Though he continued to need medication, he
was able to gain some measure of peace, driving the community's school
bus and helping young people. Benedict died shortly after the film's
final scene was shot, at the age of 59.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Loreto_3-3"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Boy_Came_Home#cite_note-Loreto-3">[3]</a></sup></span>
</p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>Watch </span><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eak0wWXtW-naT6jEWRlnnJDKdnBlItib/view?usp=drive_link" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" target="_blank">here</a><span>.</span></span></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-54576977741805747642024-02-20T11:08:00.005-05:002024-02-20T11:14:03.684-05:00ANNOUNCEMENT: THE COUNT 2024<p><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span></span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAA4vdL21NSLqOqsZpdtJq6opp27C7UHxQiTtoomIUeLmEwsjUOrv6onxnsxKFgykLP7GyDgJEmjDWSdpIZ6Kra2_Ga-A1MvWqLWqW1PnQQPSRNDZmv1tAsfE0bZMjvS6bbCpZvpLQcM8IHkoyNxSERhQuF1iY1nfXi4659xqIpkWwnbPulC90z8L70Q/s700/Screenshot%202024-01-16%20at%2010-49-25%20THE%20COUNT%202024.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="700" height="125" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAA4vdL21NSLqOqsZpdtJq6opp27C7UHxQiTtoomIUeLmEwsjUOrv6onxnsxKFgykLP7GyDgJEmjDWSdpIZ6Kra2_Ga-A1MvWqLWqW1PnQQPSRNDZmv1tAsfE0bZMjvS6bbCpZvpLQcM8IHkoyNxSERhQuF1iY1nfXi4659xqIpkWwnbPulC90z8L70Q/w400-h125/Screenshot%202024-01-16%20at%2010-49-25%20THE%20COUNT%202024.png" width="400" /></a></span></b></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span><br />ADOPTEES: The Count
began in 2024</span></b></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Use the contact form at
the link above. You will receive a survey with detailed instructions. 100% Confidential.</span></b></p><p class="MsoNoSpacing"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">CELLPHONE USERS: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLgRpSx9RpKv49AR26Aurvggsc0Us3yO/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">click HERE for a pdf</a> (take to Staples or CVS to PRINT)<br /></span></b></p><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFUTZUXXetWnlS0YKGQeooNnm4xT5gO9fq6WqcvciS8GJYCtpVUWoo9AQO4kevbIvTLKWdAyUouUNoFuctQ90lroz3AB5jtejkDvYpbyNzsWnWTE6NSMG2W7FRAxG95Nowo3cj3-Yj3CBgZoKlYWqBPKoU7Y7YMSLTTgHMEt45vlbx6FB2z5vIKujg7cs/s564/869216e742a4ca24f9278d60b4eff0b7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="541" data-original-width="564" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsFUTZUXXetWnlS0YKGQeooNnm4xT5gO9fq6WqcvciS8GJYCtpVUWoo9AQO4kevbIvTLKWdAyUouUNoFuctQ90lroz3AB5jtejkDvYpbyNzsWnWTE6NSMG2W7FRAxG95Nowo3cj3-Yj3CBgZoKlYWqBPKoU7Y7YMSLTTgHMEt45vlbx6FB2z5vIKujg7cs/w400-h384/869216e742a4ca24f9278d60b4eff0b7.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">The Count begins in 2024 : </span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><span>The
government of the United States of America has not issued an official
apology or offered any settlement to adoptees for the Indian Adoption
Projects or ARENA (a program that moved Indigenous children from Canada
to the US and vice versa.) I helped to edit and publish a book series
LOST CHILDREN so one day, someday soon, we will have this important
history to use in the courts.</span></span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: #e06666; font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><span><b>WE NEED A COUNT of ALL First Nations Indigenous adoptees.</b></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: small;">Remember: "A great general has said that the only good Indian is a dead one, General Pratt said.<br /><b>They didn’t kill all of us, so we win.</b></span><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"> <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></p><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"></span></div><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><br />BACKGROUND:</span><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">NEW HISTORY BOOK: <span style="color: red;">Almost </span>Dead Indians: Book 5: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">SPREAD THE WORD!</span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;">Want to read the book? Request the FREE PDF: tracelara@pm.me <br /></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: large;"><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TLgRpSx9RpKv49AR26Aurvggsc0Us3yO/view?usp=drive_link" target="_blank">PDF of SURVEY</a></span></p>
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are constrained to lift the hatchet against any tribe, we will never
lay it down till that tribe is exterminated, or driven beyond the
Mississippi… in war, they will kill some of us; we shall destroy them
all." -US President </span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">Thomas Jefferson</b></span></h6><h6><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead
Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to
inquire too closely into the case of the tenth." -</span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="font-family: Merriweather;">Theodore Roosevelt <br /></b></span></h6><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-9103863607070722712024-02-20T11:08:00.002-05:002024-02-20T11:08:38.183-05:00‘True Detective’: Kali Reis on #MMIP<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/true-detective-night-country-anemarie-ottosen-diane-benson-tanya-tagak-june-thiele-ippiksaut-friesen-kathryn-wilder-855x570.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="533" data-original-width="800" height="426" src="https://www.tvinsider.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/true-detective-night-country-anemarie-ottosen-diane-benson-tanya-tagak-june-thiele-ippiksaut-friesen-kathryn-wilder-855x570.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Putting a spotlight on missing and murdered Indigenous women is
something Kali Reis (Wampanoag) has been passionate about throughout her career and is
one of the reasons she signed on to play Navarro. “That’s the whole
reason why I started bringing awareness to different issues in the
community with my boxing career,” Reis says.</span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/1123162/true-detective-night-country-finale-kali-reis-navarro-danvers-reunite-indigenous-representation-storytelling/" target="_blank">READ MORE </a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Spoiler alert: Ending the TV Mystery <a href="https://www.tvinsider.com/1123039/true-detective-season-4-finale-explained-kali-reis-navarro-dead-alive/" target="_blank">HERE </a></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Kali_Reis_2024_01.png/220px-Kali_Reis_2024_01.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="294" data-original-width="220" height="294" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e0/Kali_Reis_2024_01.png/220px-Kali_Reis_2024_01.png" width="220" /></a></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />ABOUT KALI:</span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Reis was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Providence,_Rhode_Island" title="Providence, Rhode Island">Providence, Rhode Island</a>, on August 24, 1986 and is the youngest of five children.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-krin_8-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis#cite_note-krin-8">[8]</a></sup> She and her siblings were raised by their mother in East Providence, Rhode Island.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-krin_8-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis#cite_note-krin-8">[8]</a></sup><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-ksc_9-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis#cite_note-ksc-9">[9]</a></sup> Reis claims <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cape_Verdeans" title="Cape Verdeans">Cape Verdean</a> ancestry, and identifies as being of <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Native_American_ancestry" title="Native American ancestry">Native American descent</a>, specifically <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_descent" title="Cherokee descent">Cherokee</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipmuc" title="Nipmuc">Nipmuc</a> ancestry.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WomenBoxing_10-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis#cite_note-WomenBoxing-10">[10]</a></sup> She is a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seaconke_Wampanoag_Tribe" title="Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe">Seaconke Wampanoag Tribe</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-WomenBoxing_10-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis#cite_note-WomenBoxing-10">[10]</a></sup> an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unrecognized_tribe" title="Unrecognized tribe">unrecognized tribe</a> in Massachusetts. <span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In June 2022, Reis was announced as the co-lead of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Detective_(season_4)" title="True Detective (season 4)">True Detective: Night Country</a></i>, the fourth season of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HBO" title="HBO">HBO</a>'s anthology crime series. Reis starred alongside <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jodie_Foster" title="Jodie Foster">Jodie Foster</a> as a detective investigating the disappearance of eight men from an Alaskan research station. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kali_Reis" target="_blank">WIKI</a></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-7463063348115214492024-02-20T10:04:00.003-05:002024-02-20T10:09:56.050-05:00Carlisle Labor, Arrivals | Eugenics<h1 style="text-align: left;">Indian boys at work in shoe-makers shop at Carlisle Barracks</h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRxHpqIqSl8ZZfJSOtHcVwgrw6prPjli119ylln2eFFeqHoFvMc08gHCy8F-a0lq8bN53JBi_WtcklHIBGnASlPKRFln2w7ieahe5-jeMyvkIREU2NLerW8rM2vk4G-lAF_ZrPNelmXaLEjsIoipF9h6lVdgLJq5t_G_g-WvS0S-aP03C5qwBePfrlA/s2890/graphics_2666_OBJ.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1875" data-original-width="2890" height="416" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQRxHpqIqSl8ZZfJSOtHcVwgrw6prPjli119ylln2eFFeqHoFvMc08gHCy8F-a0lq8bN53JBi_WtcklHIBGnASlPKRFln2w7ieahe5-jeMyvkIREU2NLerW8rM2vk4G-lAF_ZrPNelmXaLEjsIoipF9h6lVdgLJq5t_G_g-WvS0S-aP03C5qwBePfrlA/w640-h416/graphics_2666_OBJ.tiff" width="640" /></a></div><br /> <a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6601" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">Choate, J. 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Black and white, large group photograph of Lakota SIoux boys
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/8031" hreflang="en">Speck-Choate Photograph Collection</a></div>
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6601" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902</a></div>
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6602" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">Boarding schools</a></div>
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6603" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pa.)</a></div>
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<div class="field__item" content="1879-10-05">
1879-10-05</div><div class="field__item" content="1879-10-05"> </div><div class="field__item" content="1879-10-05"><h1>Sioux girls as they arrived at the Indian Training School, Carlisle Barracks, Oct. 5th, 1879</h1><h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGAdfpwcDo3PLd5wt2_ZxJ3wAocKNByuzKBvZ2Qhc4PFYzA9Zfvvel0NZtVCNCuWiu7DMGkc18KvKtfBqsEq5Ct95K8Yqn2QyAIqtSe0Zca1OjzBlYXSxdCKIBBPnN6w1moT_hGyZEB8oJJCFhoVxPnAOqImnEctY8pCRtGlNbXMtljnP112cgtj41iQ/s2913/graphics_2642_OBJ.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1790" data-original-width="2913" height="394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGAdfpwcDo3PLd5wt2_ZxJ3wAocKNByuzKBvZ2Qhc4PFYzA9Zfvvel0NZtVCNCuWiu7DMGkc18KvKtfBqsEq5Ct95K8Yqn2QyAIqtSe0Zca1OjzBlYXSxdCKIBBPnN6w1moT_hGyZEB8oJJCFhoVxPnAOqImnEctY8pCRtGlNbXMtljnP112cgtj41iQ/w640-h394/graphics_2642_OBJ.tiff" width="640" /></a></div>Creator (cre): <a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6600" hreflang="en">Choate, J. N. (John N.), 1848-1902</a></h1><div class="field field--name-field-linked-agent field--type-typed-relation field--label-above"><div class="field__items">
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Contributor (ctb): <a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/4693" hreflang="en">Speck, Frank Gouldsmith, 1881-1950</a></div>
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Black and white, large group photograph of Lakota Sioux young
women and girls wearing traditional clothing. Title written on verso. </div><div class="field__item"><a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/graphics%3A2642">https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/graphics%3A2642</a> <br /></div></div> </div>
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</div></div></div><div class="field__item"> </div><div class="field__item">**</div><h1 class="field__item" style="text-align: left;">BORN TO BE A BURDEN? <br /></h1><div class="field__item"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZvtHHKbhHSBQzJHF-NtsPnQtHTORKAmjjdMDeeu_r783pv3cW1OpCPBcRK1rEbz_282P3cBNkoRS56pzL396WtdQyyJxe9L27oLbGxtze3IzEjTVITuRFhCoAFpt4-LVFYAnup1vp1LRB8UGWFnUx8dwBGp7LIRVmO1NeVQ6wfXrNaiC-Q0wRO0DtQ/s2625/graphics_1665_OBJ.tiff" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2100" data-original-width="2625" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeZvtHHKbhHSBQzJHF-NtsPnQtHTORKAmjjdMDeeu_r783pv3cW1OpCPBcRK1rEbz_282P3cBNkoRS56pzL396WtdQyyJxe9L27oLbGxtze3IzEjTVITuRFhCoAFpt4-LVFYAnup1vp1LRB8UGWFnUx8dwBGp7LIRVmO1NeVQ6wfXrNaiC-Q0wRO0DtQ/w640-h512/graphics_1665_OBJ.tiff" width="640" /></a></div><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmb5LIvI13rzoYLJQ9y6hSTLXBZ3r6MvXJbbbV8H370N4nrs5yCAuIRYl-Rj4gTeoCDFebFMmdwfdelZ9Hzt09v1abdmQCRwC8nLTAjYfHs0oshDAlHt9KhCp2QcDEERUAglkkr8qauqJGEHeYGV6WNtSOwpCCNCPJ2-p0E6Qxh3pSMtD8-6H2Uagdw/s693/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%2009-56-28%20Exhibit%20at%20Sesquicentennial%20Exposition%20Philadelphia%20Pa.%201926.%20American%20Philosophical%20Society%20Library%20&%20Museum.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="654" data-original-width="693" height="604" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimmb5LIvI13rzoYLJQ9y6hSTLXBZ3r6MvXJbbbV8H370N4nrs5yCAuIRYl-Rj4gTeoCDFebFMmdwfdelZ9Hzt09v1abdmQCRwC8nLTAjYfHs0oshDAlHt9KhCp2QcDEERUAglkkr8qauqJGEHeYGV6WNtSOwpCCNCPJ2-p0E6Qxh3pSMtD8-6H2Uagdw/w640-h604/Screenshot%202024-02-20%20at%2009-56-28%20Exhibit%20at%20Sesquicentennial%20Exposition%20Philadelphia%20Pa.%201926.%20American%20Philosophical%20Society%20Library%20&%20Museum.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Guineau Pigs at right (interbreeding is bad obviously)<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />EUGENICS</div><div class="field__item"><div class="field field--name-field-display-title field--type-string field--label-hidden field__item">
<div class="node__title"><a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/islandora/object/graphics%3A1665" hreflang="en">Exhibit at Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa., 1926.</a></div>
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American Eugenics Society photograph with caption "Exhibit at Sesquicentennial Exposition, Philadelphia, Pa., 1926."
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/1356" hreflang="en">American Eugenics Society Records</a></div>
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/742" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">Eugenics</a></div>
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/764" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">American Eugenics Society</a></div>
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<a href="https://diglib.amphilsoc.org/taxonomy/term/6399" hreflang="en" rel="dcterms:subject">Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)</a></div>
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<div class="field__label">Date Created: 1926</div><div class="field__items">
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</div> </div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-35976316685909537122024-02-15T00:21:00.001-05:002024-02-15T00:21:00.134-05:00FILM: A Place Between - The Story of an Adoption <p></p><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;">By Trace Hentz (blog editor)<span style="background-color: #fcff01;"> REBLOG from 2019<br /></span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I
run across comments by adoptive parents and PAPS (potential adoptive
parents) asking why is it wrong for non-Natives to adopt Native kids?
Volumes have been written about this, on this blog, and in medical
studies and published reports but we STILL have people who don't
understand.</span></span></h1><h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-size: large;">Curtis and Ashok Kaltenbaugh were born in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manitoba" title="Manitoba">Manitoba</a>
and are of First Nations ancestry. After the 1980 death of their
younger brother, at ages of 7 and 4 respectively, they were removed from
the custody of their birth mother and placed for adoption with a
middle-class white family living in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pennsylvania" title="Pennsylvania">Pennsylvania</a>.</span></span></span></h1><h1 class="firstHeading" id="firstHeading" lang="en"><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Here is an example on <a href="http://adoption.com/">Adoption.com</a>:</span></span>
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<span style="font-size: small;">April 15, 2011 </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;">I'm watching this documentary right now on demand. Its about these two
Native American boys (now adults) who were adopted from foster (care) in Canada
to an American (CC) family in Redding, PA. They were adopted as young
boys so they remembered being with the bmom and now one of the boys is
making a film about being between both families. I thing that bothers me is the younger
brother has basically at 18 yrs old left his adoptive family and went
back to Canada to bio family and he hasn't talked to his AP's in 8
years. His issues are growing up without his NA identity and racism he
dealt with being NA in a all CC environment. Actually both boys are
living in Canada now. The older brother still has a relationship with
his AP's.
<b>As an AP I would take it as a slap in the
face if my kid just left and wouldn't talking to me for 8 yrs.</b> Its like
these boys bio mom was an alcoholic who had her kids taken away because
she was neglecting them. She said herself she would be drunk for 6 weeks
straight and have no idea what day or month it is. Also leaving these
babies at home by themselves while she's out partying and they have to
change each diapers etc... So you have this family come in and give you a
stable home and love and yet because they are CC you just leave?? Im
wondering if this something that happens more often with older kids
adoption from foster care? Like I said earlier it really annoys me but a great watch anyways.<a href="https://adoption.com/forums/thread/369351/movie-a-place-between-a-story-of-adoption/" target="_blank"> LINK</a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="315" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.nfb.ca/film/place_between_the_story_of_an_adoption/embed/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="560"></iframe><br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/place_between_the_story_of_an_adoption/" target="_blank"><i>A Place Between - The Story of an Adoption</i></a>, <a href="https://www.nfb.ca/directors/curtis-kaltenbaugh/" target="_blank" title="more films by Curtis Kaltenbaugh">Curtis Kaltenbaugh</a>, <a href="https://www.nfb.ca/" target="_blank">provided by the National Film Board of Canada</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/place_between_the_story_of_an_adoption/" target="_blank">WATCH
<iframe allowfullscreen="true" frameborder="0" height="315" mozallowfullscreen="true" src="https://www.nfb.ca/film/place_between_the_story_of_an_adoption/embed/player/" webkitallowfullscreen="true" width="560"></iframe></a><p style="width: (( width ))px;"><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/place_between_the_story_of_an_adoption/" target="_blank"></a><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/film/place_between_the_story_of_an_adoption/" target="_blank"><i>A Place Between - The Story of an Adoption</i></a><span>, </span><a href="https://www.nfb.ca/directors/curtis-kaltenbaugh/" target="_blank" title="more films by Curtis Kaltenbaugh"><span>Curtis Kaltenbaugh</span></a><span>, </span><a href="https://www.nfb.ca" target="_blank">provided by the National Film Board of Canada</a></p><span style="font-size: small;"><i><b>A Place Between – The Story of an Adoption</b></i> is a 2007 documentary film dealing with cross-cultural </span><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoption" title="Adoption">adoption</a> and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations" title="First Nations">aboriginal life in Canada</a>. It was directed by First Nations adoptee Curtis Kaltenbaugh and produced by the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Film_Board_of_Canada" title="National Film Board of Canada">National Film Board of Canada</a>.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The film chronicles their search for identity and the meeting of their adoptive and birth families.<br />
The film won <i>Best Public Service Award</i> at the Annual <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Indian_Film_Festival" title="American Indian Film Festival">American Indian Film Festival</a>, held in San Francisco during November 2007.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Place_Between_%E2%80%93_The_Story_of_an_Adoption#cite_note-1">[wiki]</a></sup></span><br />
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<div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-58460662474584703992024-02-15T00:21:00.000-05:002024-02-15T00:21:00.135-05:00Montana Foster Care and #ICWA<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusMrc6_DHUWDtdLfYO5DVgCOfUKlrg7OS_yF96W_uF0L0-24QGUuavSP_fQIRcC65prwtVsD-U1fYqCPtHskt5zHM6__mUV4huQraNmXOe8f_wiZkRAEKLIr2ouyDSFQiDbrRQ2eb-0ARZ3IsYwZOzkkuWeMgA8mlAWPbODj5i30fDzh7UVJjdfd-Bw/s737/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%2010-39-11%20Can%20Montana%20mend%20its%20racial%20gap%20in%20foster%20care.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="367" data-original-width="737" height="318" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgusMrc6_DHUWDtdLfYO5DVgCOfUKlrg7OS_yF96W_uF0L0-24QGUuavSP_fQIRcC65prwtVsD-U1fYqCPtHskt5zHM6__mUV4huQraNmXOe8f_wiZkRAEKLIr2ouyDSFQiDbrRQ2eb-0ARZ3IsYwZOzkkuWeMgA8mlAWPbODj5i30fDzh7UVJjdfd-Bw/w640-h318/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%2010-39-11%20Can%20Montana%20mend%20its%20racial%20gap%20in%20foster%20care.png" width="640" /></a></div> <p></p><p><em><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: small;"><em>Native American children make up more than a third of the
foster care caseload in Montana, despite representing less than 10% of
the state’s child population. While there’s a broad consensus among
child welfare experts that this outsized representation is a problem,
there exists no collective strategy to address it. The Montana Free
Press series </em><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/keeping-the-kids"><em>Keeping the Kids</em></a><em>, supported by a data fellowship through the </em><a href="https://centerforhealthjournalism.org/"><em>USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism</em></a><em>,
explores the available data and highlights examples of local solutions
around the state. This article focuses on MTFP’s analysis of the
available data and some of the factors contributing to racial
disproportionality in foster care. </em></span></em></p><p><em><em></em></em></p><p><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/2024/02/12/can-montana-mend-its-racial-gap-in-foster-care/" target="_blank">READ</a></p><p><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;"><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Copy-of-38-Percentage-of-Montanas-foster-care-caseload-involving-Native-American-children-in-April-2022.-3.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="300" height="300" src="https://montanafreepress.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Copy-of-38-Percentage-of-Montanas-foster-care-caseload-involving-Native-American-children-in-April-2022.-3.png" width="300" /></a></span></div><span style="background-color: #fcff01; font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">If poverty exists, and it does in Indian Country, there will always be a problem... let's solve poverty... Trace<br /></span><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FKgWRxTTXDLilcuwo8c-sa3CjeiEq02p1wGaBQ09bXeGyIx0YnhWfLxqtVqT5bnRAquKY7u4HaG8ZvRPxmJVdu_rG2_F9hx9J95CypPPui_6a1vrflA_nSdrLlMCDUsIMXjiWzGvmQguGVXKpwbWiitt1pKtWTrOpwkFKC1TFFhhVFFKmB7jby53LA/s361/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%2010-41-11%20Can%20Montana%20mend%20its%20racial%20gap%20in%20foster%20care.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="251" data-original-width="361" height="222" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FKgWRxTTXDLilcuwo8c-sa3CjeiEq02p1wGaBQ09bXeGyIx0YnhWfLxqtVqT5bnRAquKY7u4HaG8ZvRPxmJVdu_rG2_F9hx9J95CypPPui_6a1vrflA_nSdrLlMCDUsIMXjiWzGvmQguGVXKpwbWiitt1pKtWTrOpwkFKC1TFFhhVFFKmB7jby53LA/s320/Screenshot%202024-02-13%20at%2010-41-11%20Can%20Montana%20mend%20its%20racial%20gap%20in%20foster%20care.png" width="320" /></a></div><span>RELATED</span>
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<h3 class="entry-title"><a href="https://montanafreepress.org/2024/02/12/how-we-calculated-disproportionality-in-montana-foster-care/" rel="bookmark" style="font-family: Merriweather;">How we calculated disproportionality in Montana foster care</a></h3> <p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In
October of last year, Montana Free Press started investigating why
Montana’s foster care caseload, which was at least 38% Native American
in 2022, is so racially skewed. Here’s how data shaped our reporting.</span></p>
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<span class="author-prefix">by</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://montanafreepress.org/author/mara-silvers/">Mara Silvers</a></span> </span>
<time class="entry-date published" datetime="2024-02-12T11:56:01-07:00">02.12.2024</time><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-51331334376189270272024-02-14T00:21:00.057-05:002024-02-14T00:21:00.133-05:00Indigenous Children Forced Adoption: 2021 | Even More Children Than In The Residential School System<p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Remember it was expensive to run the residential schools, so their next plan was (closed) adoptions that were cheaper and more permanent. Our records were sealed. We disappear... The Indian Adoption Projects and ARENA (Adoption Resource Exchange of America and Canada) were cultural genocide... intentional moving children from the Canada to the US and vice versa.<br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br /><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/qwcNn4PF8Xc?si=UOtXx7JocrYfLNZ3" style="background-image: url(https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qwcNn4PF8Xc/hqdefault.jpg);" width="480"></iframe></span><p></p><p>
</p><h1 class="page-header">Apooyak’ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete: The Kainai Stolen Children Era <br /></h1>
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Did
you know Indigenous children in Canada endured more than just Indian
residential schools during the stolen children era? Indeed, they did. In
fact, for over a century, the Canadian government used several school
models to try to assimilate Indigenous children. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> University of Lethbridge sociology professor Apooyak’ii, Dr. Tiffany Prete, talks about <em>The Kainai Stolen Children Era. </em></span><a href="https://youtu.be/pMIPaYpx1po" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">ICYMI: Watch the video</span></span></a></p><div class="media media-element-container media-default media-float-right"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img alt="Dr. Tiffany Prete" class="media-element file-default img-responsive" data-delta="1" height="345" src="https://www.ulethbridge.ca/sites/default/files/resize/2022/10/tiffany-prete-500x345.jpg" style="float: right; height: 345px; margin: 10px; width: 500px;" title="Dr. Tiffany Prete" width="500" /></span></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Apooyak’ii/Dr. Tiffany Prete (nee Hind Bull) is a member of the
Kainai (Blood Tribe) of the Siksikasitapi (Blackfoot Confederacy),
located in the Treaty 7 area. Her program of work is comprised of
implementing the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s Calls to Action
on the Blood Reserve. Prete’s background is in educational policy
studies, specializing in Indigenous Peoples education. Her area of
expertise includes Indigenous secondary retention rates within the
public school system, Blackfoot historical research, impacts of
colonization, intergenerational trauma, and Indigenous research
methodologies. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="http://apooyakii_dr._tiffany_prete_presents_the_kainai_stolen_children_era_at_this_weeks_public_professor_series_talkoct2422.pdf" target="_blank">PDF</a> </span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Learn more, visit: <a href="https://www.ulethbridge.ca/artsci/public-professor-series-apooyakii-dr-tiffany-prete" title="https://www.ulethbridge.ca/artsci/public-professor-series-apooyakii-dr-tiffany-prete">ulethbridge.ca/artsci/pps-prete</a></span> <br /></p><p><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/dpgd_HUCSuk" width="320" youtube-src-id="dpgd_HUCSuk"></iframe></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-61682207803932900672024-02-13T13:00:00.002-05:002024-02-13T13:00:00.156-05:00Wyoming #MMIWP | BIA 24/7 HELP LINE: 1-844-275-2497
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <a aria-hidden="true" class="aligncenter" href="https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-february-13-2024/" tabindex="-1"><img alt="Assistant Special Agent in Charge Leonard Carollo speaks during the press conference in Fort Washakie, Wyo. (Photo: Hannah Habermann / Wyoming Public Media)" class="entry-image attachment-post" height="473" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.nativenews.net/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/fbi-wind-river-presser-scaled.jpg?fit=768%2C567&ssl=1" width="640" /></a></span></p><p class="powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Podcast: <a class="powerpress_link_pinw" href="https://media.blubrry.com/nationalnativenews/ins.blubrry.com/nationalnativenews/nnn021324.mp3" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" title="Play in new window">Play in new window</a> | <a class="powerpress_link_d" href="https://media.blubrry.com/nationalnativenews/ins.blubrry.com/nationalnativenews/nnn021324.mp3" rel="nofollow" title="Download">Download</a> | <a class="powerpress_link_e" href="https://www.nativenews.net/#" rel="nofollow" title="Embed">Embed</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The FBI just launched a new project to collect more data about the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) crisis.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Wyoming Public Radio’s <a class="wp-links-icon" href="https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/people/hannah-habermann" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Hannah Habermann</a> reports on the announcement at the Wind River Reservation made last week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
FBI is the primary law enforcement agency that investigates serious
crimes on the Wind River Reservation – and they’re trying to collect
more information about those who’ve gone missing or have been murdered.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">The agency set up a new designated email account – <a href="mailto:WYMMIP@fbi.gov">WYMMIP@fbi.gov</a> – to better understand what the crisis looks like in the state and what resources the agency can contribute to solving cases.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img alt="" class="alignright wp-image-28591 size-medium" data-recalc-dims="1" height="356" src="https://i0.wp.com/nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13043638/FBI-Wind-River-quote-300x167.jpg?resize=300%2C167&ssl=1" width="640" /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">FBI agent Leonard Carollo says he recognizes that tribal members have not always been comfortable working with the agency.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We recognize these historical barriers and want to do all we can to improve the flow of information.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Agents
and other FBI employees will collect information – like new details or
cases that were never reported – for the next ninety days. Then, they
will research and investigate the tips.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The FBI also plans to host in-person information-gathering sessions on the Reservation.</span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span><a name='more'></a></span>MURDERS in ALAKSA <br /></span></h3><div class="wp-caption alignleft" id="attachment_28593" style="width: 310px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img alt="" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-28593" class="wp-image-28593 size-medium" data-recalc-dims="1" height="200" src="https://i0.wp.com/nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13045055/nesbett-courthouse-anchorage-300x200.jpg?resize=300%2C200&ssl=1" width="300" /></span><p class="wp-caption-text" id="caption-attachment-28593"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Nesbett Courthouse in downtown Anchorage, Alaska, where the trial is taking place. (Courtesy Lex Treinen / Alaska Public Media)</span></p></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>The Anchorage murder trial of Brian Smith enters</b> its second week.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
52-year-old man is accused of killing Kathleen Henry and Veronica
Abouchuk, two Alaska Native women from the rural communities of Eek and
Stebbins who had experienced homelessness in Anchorage.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Last week
during jury selection, potential jurors were asked if they could handle
seeing gruesome photos and video that Smith allegedly shot of the one of
the killings on his cell phone.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">A woman testified last week that she stole the phone from Smith’s truck.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">At the time, she said she lived in a tent and was riding around town with Smith “on a date”.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In 2019, the woman turned in an SD card to police and told them she found it on the ground.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">But
in court last week, she admitted to stealing Smith’s phone from his
truck and copying the video to an SD card, which she turned over police,
after her therapist encouraged her to do so.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">As the trial
finished its first week, defense attorneys argued the footage shouldn’t
be shown to the jury, because so many different stories have been told
about the source of the video.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Before trial recessed last week,
the judge asked the prosecution to explain more about how police
obtained the video and how it was handled.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">As of now, the judge
plans to allow the jury to see the footage in which Smith does not
appear, but is heard telling his victim that he plans to kill her.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Investigators say they recognized his South African accent from a prior investigation involving Smith, which led to his arrest.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">*</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather; font-size: large;">The <a href="https://www.bie.edu">Bureau of Indian Education</a> has launched a behavioral health and wellness support line for students and staff.
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<b>Students and staff at BIE schools and programs can connect with
trained professionals by calling 1-844-ASK-BHWP (<span style="background-color: #fcff01;">1-844-275-2497</span>). The
support line is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
</b></blockquote></span><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><h3 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong><img alt="" class="alignright size-full wp-image-28594" data-recalc-dims="1" height="640" src="https://i0.wp.com/nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/13045711/bie-helpline.jpg?resize=1080%2C1080&ssl=1" width="640" />The federal government is launching</strong> a new behavioral health call line for students and staff at tribal schools.</span></h3><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The Mountain West News Bureau’s <a class="wp-links-icon" href="https://www.kunr.org/people/kaleb-roedel" rel="external nofollow" target="_blank">Kaleb Roedel</a> has more.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The line is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and funded by the Bureau of Indian Education.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The agency says the line will mostly be staffed by Indigenous counselors who have experience serving Native communities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">They will offer both immediate individual crisis support and scheduling for virtual counseling.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The behavioral health line will serve more than 180 tribal schools.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-41464668595619707072024-02-13T09:34:00.003-05:002024-02-13T09:34:26.108-05:00Barbara BadElk 60s Scoop survivor<p><iframe frameborder="0" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/zB2-Pl-c1Ek?si=fmFEmHwQaffq1yru" width="480"></iframe> </p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Adoptees, WE CAN BE ANYWHERE!</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">MORE VIDEOS HERE:
<a href="https://sixtiesscoopnetwork.org/projects">https://sixtiesscoopnetwork.org/projects</a></span></span></p><p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitUbdMxo5DoCcxCreVTGhl9n_gE5vo2JSACfZiFBANi0zdJp6DUz_vDwNjN65E_PolUvogEF7XE5Rax_PC9FlyrEz_2m8E7ad353f2sRWNeWARlVt3Q_qCG8QNT7FGJeNLPsvQjquLUJEfHf6YucZMbcXDh9b_xWR_RUgW7v1mIRNIHg2r9P_d8yRwxQ/s700/Screenshot%202024-01-16%20at%2010-49-25%20THE%20COUNT%202024.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="218" data-original-width="700" height="100" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEitUbdMxo5DoCcxCreVTGhl9n_gE5vo2JSACfZiFBANi0zdJp6DUz_vDwNjN65E_PolUvogEF7XE5Rax_PC9FlyrEz_2m8E7ad353f2sRWNeWARlVt3Q_qCG8QNT7FGJeNLPsvQjquLUJEfHf6YucZMbcXDh9b_xWR_RUgW7v1mIRNIHg2r9P_d8yRwxQ/s320/Screenshot%202024-01-16%20at%2010-49-25%20THE%20COUNT%202024.png" width="320" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">LINK: <a href="https://thecount2024.blogspot.com/">https://thecount2024.blogspot.com/</a><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br /> </p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-78861317538801479372024-02-10T22:54:00.003-05:002024-02-10T22:54:33.817-05:00Top court upholds Indigenous child welfare law, AFN chief reacts <iframe width="480" height="270" src="https://youtube.com/embed/OYTSB44EKWQ?si=WlPt-F0_uJBXUKNF" frameborder="0"></iframe><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-49748930401059935462024-02-08T12:17:00.009-05:002024-02-08T12:17:53.474-05:00Committed to Investigating Abuses at 523 BOARDING SCHOOLS (USA)<iframe frameborder="0" height="30" scrolling="no" src="https://www.nativenews.net/?powerpress_embed=28500-podcast&powerpress_player=mediaelement-audio" title="Blubrry Podcast Player" width="320"></iframe>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <a aria-hidden="true" class="aligncenter" href="https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-february-8-2024/" tabindex="-1"><img alt="" class="entry-image attachment-post" height="432" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/08095638/davids-cole-capitol-v2-768x432.jpg" width="768" /></a></span></p><header class="entry-header"><h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-february-8-2024/" style="font-family: Merriweather;">Thursday, February 8, 2024</a></h2></header><p class="powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>This week, U.S. Reps. Sharice Davids (Ho-Chunk/D-KS) and Tom Cole (Chickasaw/R-OK) reintroduced</b>
legislation to investigate, document, and report on the histories of
Indian boarding schools and their long-term impacts on tribal
communities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The bill has been endorsed by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS).</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">NABS CEO Deborah Parker talked about the legislation at the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span style="font-size: large;">“It’s
much needed to help us tell the story, help us understand what happened
to our Native American children in U.S. boarding schools. And we
deserve, America deserves, not only Native Americans, but students, but
people, any human being who is living today deserves to understand the
truth about what happened in the United States.”</span></span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Parker says they’re seeking records and information from both the federal government and churches that ran the schools.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We
know parents are still looking for children to this day, their
relatives who never came home. Most of the parents are no longer with
us, but there are elders who have brothers and sisters, siblings,
cousins who never made it home from the boarding school. So, they are
missing. We’re trying to help families locate their loved ones…we still
know our communities have, we have broken systems within our communities
because we don’t know where our loved ones are.”</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The legislation
would establish a formal commission to investigate federal Indian
boarding school policies, develop recommendations for federal entities
to help with healing efforts, and provide a forum for victims to speak.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Reps.
Davids and Cole, co-chairs of the Congressional Native American Caucus,
say they’re committed to investigating the abuses at the institutions,
which are connected to an estimated 500 student deaths. <span style="background-color: #fff2cc;">(I have seen bigger numbers: 10,000 + who died in the schools)<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The Truth
and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act of 2024
has also been endorsed by the National Congress of American Indians.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><p><span style="background-color: #fff2cc; font-family: Merriweather;">Where are they? Where are all the adoptees? Genocide is hard to document, right? Trace<br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-27230794418222886622024-02-08T07:47:00.002-05:002024-02-20T12:47:31.684-05:00My Interview: ADOPTION UNCOVERED<h3 style="text-align: left;">ENTIRE INTERVIEW: <a href="https://adoptionuncovered.com/" rel="home">Adoption Uncovered</a></h3><figure class="wp-block-image size-large"><img alt="" class="wp-image-378" data-attachment-id="378" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-caption="" data-image-description="" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="pexels-daniel-torobekov-18340851" data-large-file="https://adoptionuncovered.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/pexels-daniel-torobekov-18340851.jpg?w=683" data-medium-file="https://adoptionuncovered.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/pexels-daniel-torobekov-18340851.jpg?w=200" data-orig-file="https://adoptionuncovered.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/pexels-daniel-torobekov-18340851.jpg" data-orig-size="5400,8100" data-permalink="https://adoptionuncovered.com/2024/02/07/trace-lara-hentz-talks-about-the-importance-of-the-count-2024-to-native-american-adoptees-everywhere/pexels-daniel-torobekov-18340851/" height="640" src="https://adoptionuncovered.files.wordpress.com/2024/02/pexels-daniel-torobekov-18340851.jpg?w=683" width="427" /><figcaption class="wp-element-caption"><a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/little-child-in-traditional-native-american-costume-18340851/">Photo by Daniel Torobekov</a></figcaption></figure>
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Most of us have heard bits and pieces about how poorly America has
treated the Native Tribes that have lived on this land. We may not
understand fully how adoption was weaponized against tribes to raise
children who were brought up without a memory of their heritage and
culture. As journalist Trace Lara Hentz began to look into her own past
as a Native American Adoptee she began to realize how many people like
her are out there and alone. This year she is embarking on a project to
find out how many adoptees in America and around the world can trace
their history to a Native American tribe. Listen to this interview with
Trace for more information about how adoption is connected to America’s
treatment of Native American tribes, and where we should go from here. </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">If you or someone you know is a Native American Adoptee please consider participating in “<b>The Count 2024</b>“. The link to access the count is <a href="https://thecount2024.blogspot.com/">here</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Find easy access to all of Trace Lara Hentz’s written works on Amazon <a href="https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B003RT7HP2/allbooks?ingress=0&visitId=b5e73c83-2e96-439a-b3ed-88c55cc03759&ref_=ap_rdr">here.</a></span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Read more about Trace on her blog <a href="https://blog.tracehentz.com/">here.</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">To read more on the American Indian Adoptee blog click <a href="https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com/">here</a>.</span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-59893472641676126152024-02-05T13:28:00.002-05:002024-02-05T13:28:37.922-05:00Canada: Support for Adoptees | Stronger Than the Scoop<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWHnazpVK3d08CAXfksH5RmuWyzVrI4T7WN1BpWuq-IIGK8K_CjD9NTUTT7-bQa0eb7IWPkCsYtuGMrc8oUxiUQnpEMiLoPvG1c0YPh-iWfH4KyU5be7pddYuTL-e8eY4XA7yQb30sKPt65L7ol_0cgLLVY7qRECBfqjA3KGhQjETE-CVRwd1kg4VsEQ/s680/stole%20the%20children%20and%20land.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="382" data-original-width="680" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWHnazpVK3d08CAXfksH5RmuWyzVrI4T7WN1BpWuq-IIGK8K_CjD9NTUTT7-bQa0eb7IWPkCsYtuGMrc8oUxiUQnpEMiLoPvG1c0YPh-iWfH4KyU5be7pddYuTL-e8eY4XA7yQb30sKPt65L7ol_0cgLLVY7qRECBfqjA3KGhQjETE-CVRwd1kg4VsEQ/s320/stole%20the%20children%20and%20land.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span>Campaign seeks to support ’60s Scoop survivors</span></span></h1><p>
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Educating the public about the
lasting impacts of the ’60s Scoop on Indigenous individuals and families
is the mission behind the Southern Chiefs’ Organization’s newest
education and awareness campaign.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“It is essential we recognize
the lasting impacts of the ’60s Scoop on Anishinaabe and Dakota
citizens,” Jerry Daniels, grand chief of the Southern Chiefs’
Organization (SCO) said in a press release sent out on Jan 17.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><b>The campaign, called “Stronger Than the Scoop,” will honour and care for survivors of the ’60s Scoop and their families.</b></span></blockquote><p></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
Scoop saw the removal of Indigenous children from their communities,
families and cultures from the 1960s to the ’80s. An estimated 20,000 to
40,000 First Nation, Métis and Inuit children were removed from their
families and communities by the federal government and adopted out into
non-Indigenous households.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">According to the University of British
Columbia, the ’60s Scoop began because the federal government started to
phase out sending Indigenous children to residential schools in the
1950s and ‘60s, though the practice continued for decades.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
government, however, deemed many Indigenous families “unsuitable” to
care for their children, and soon provinces were legislated to be able
to use child protection services to remove Indigenous children from
their families.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Indigenous Foundations, a group out of British
Columbia, says that children who grew up in conditions where their
identity was suppressed and where they were abused often eventually
experienced psychological and emotional problems that sometimes didn’t
emerge until later in life when they learned the truth about their
roots.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We often talk about resilience when it comes to our
peoples, and that certainly applies to those who survived the ’60s
Scoop,” Daniels said, calling it another dark chapter in what was an
“epidemic” of child apprehension which started with residential schools.
“We need to acknowledge the systemic harm and generational trauma that
was caused and do what we can to help with healing.”</span></p>
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</div></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Chief Gordon Bluesky of the Brokenhead Ojibway First
Nation, 298 kilometres northeast of Brandon, extended his gratitude to
the national Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canada for providing
support to raise awareness of the impact of the Scoop, he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I
am pleased and proud to see SCO create this campaign to help bring
awareness to this practice that continues to impact our citizens. It is
essential that all citizens in Canada learn the truth about the practice
and the ongoing impact of the ’60s Scoop,” Bluesky said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b>The SCO
is focusing the campaign on survivors of its member nations. The
organization represents 34 Anishinaabe and Dakota nations in southern
Manitoba, and more than 85,500 citizens, its website states.</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The
SCO held an upcoming Survivors’ Healing Gathering in Winnipeg the week
the press release was sent out, which featured keynote speaker Colleen
Cardinal Hele, the executive director of the National Indigenous
Survivors of Child Welfare Network and ’60s Scoop survivor.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">A
virtual sharing circle for survivors was held on Jan. 25, and this
month, a sharing circle for survivors will take place in Brandon on Feb.
10.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: medium;">While the damage done by the Scoop remains, the SCO is
committed to doing all it can to help survivors and their families
regain their languages, cultures and identities, Daniels said. He also
put a call out for all Canadians to learn about the ’60s Scoop and the
effect it had on Indigenous people so that they can help the SCO and
other organizations do everything they can to help those impacted on
their healing journeys.</span></blockquote><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“To our survivors: I see you and I honour
you for what you have experienced. I stand with you as you move forward
on your healing journeys,” Daniels said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">SOURCE: <a href="https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_eec89e81-3ae0-58e1-80be-1ceaeda3536b.html">https://www.pentictonherald.ca/spare_news/article_eec89e81-3ae0-58e1-80be-1ceaeda3536b.html<br /></a></span></p></div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-59866316679451424052024-02-05T13:09:00.002-05:002024-02-06T10:49:54.110-05:00Caught Red-Handed #Looters #Murder #NAGPRA (updated!)<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><b></b></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhciPMK26U0lu6tMwqZv7egGu4ls9H7GfpSNs3GaQVBa_JAbVdU7hIJvOAzOYZJl7yE-wOBE7c48RYamKAAfj_FRdtuDQKzupn9_GdS1wuxRG_y3l7xsII5SlUfLGTBMhvrE7bwVyM6snWFLlhHqMxZKA6VJb4H5fs4qBCdbawxrZjNbNuWz-prys5dNQ/s500/survivors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="500" data-original-width="500" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhciPMK26U0lu6tMwqZv7egGu4ls9H7GfpSNs3GaQVBa_JAbVdU7hIJvOAzOYZJl7yE-wOBE7c48RYamKAAfj_FRdtuDQKzupn9_GdS1wuxRG_y3l7xsII5SlUfLGTBMhvrE7bwVyM6snWFLlhHqMxZKA6VJb4H5fs4qBCdbawxrZjNbNuWz-prys5dNQ/w400-h400/survivors.jpg" width="400" /></a></b></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br />By Trace Hentz, blog editor<br /></b></span><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In the new book <b>ALMOST Dead Indians</b>, the expectation of dead Indians is pretty evident: after first contact: 1,000+ massacres, slavery, plagues they spread via blankets, rotten food commodities, poisons that killed entire tribal communities, numerous scalp bounties, then the Lake Mohonk rich men like General Pratt suggesting all kids attend residential boarding schools (Carlisle Indian Industrial School) - these ideas were the best way to assimilate and KILL THE INDIAN and SAVE THE MAN... it's all there... we have proof.<br /></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">But looting graves and theft was yet another way to kill the Indian, to hide what they did: plus they'd make money, get a college degree from somewhere, while they leveled and robbed thousands of mounds (and tribal massacre sites) that held our dead and our sacred items. See a pattern here?</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">It was expected we would all die... sooner than later... one way or the other.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Looting is proof. Our bones in museum collections is more proof. These museums and the looters got caught red-handed. Now they will pay for this atrocity. We are exposing them.<br /></span></span></p><h1 itemprop="headline"><a href="https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/senate-committee-on-indian-affairs-chair-schatz-demands-institutions-to-return-native-remains-and-items-to-tribes" target="_blank">Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Chair Schatz Demands Institutions to Return Native Remains and Items to Tribes </a> </h1><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>For centuries, Native people had everything stolen from them –
their lands, their water, their languages, and even their children. It
wasn’t that long ago that it was the official policy of the United
States government to terminate the existence of tribes and forcibly
assimilate their citizens. And a big part of that unrelenting, inhumane
policy was that the remains of Native ancestors and culturally
significant items were also taken from them. Not with permission, but by
force. Not discovered, but stolen. On battlefields and in cemeteries,
under the cover of darkness or the guise of academic research.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Think about that. The U.S. government literally stole people’s
bones. Soldiers and agents overturned graves and took whatever they
could find. And these weren’t isolated incidents – they happened all
across the country. In my home state of Hawai‘i, the remains of Native
Hawaiians – or iwi kūpuna as they’re called – were routinely pillaged
without any regard for the sanctity of the burials or Native Hawaiian
culture.</i><i> </i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>And all of it was brought to some of the most venerable
institutions – at home and abroad -- to be studied like biological
specimens…displayed in museum exhibits as if they’re paintings on
loan…or squirreled away in a professor’s office closet, never to be seen
again.</i></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>The theft of hundreds of thousands of remains and items over
generations was unconscionable in and of itself. But the legacy of that
cruelty continues to this day because these museums and universities
continue to hold onto these sacred items in violation of everything that
is right and moral – and importantly, in violation of federal law.</i></span></p><p><i>read more: <a href="https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/senate-committee-on-indian-affairs-chair-schatz-demands-institutions-to-return-native-remains-and-items-to-tribes" target="_blank">https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/senate-committee-on-indian-affairs-chair-schatz-demands-institutions-to-return-native-remains-and-items-to-tribes </a></i></p><h1 itemprop="headline"> Free BOOK PDF: email: tracelara@pm.me</h1><h1 itemprop="headline">*<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JHM8FI8QYniOWQTfx3IbGGsiLzrynGKB2633_c9xCqK5Ahjlv5cN1BelJGqIlrefGYEzDaZQFIGgSYWuCHUe87HLSn1rmTvSUqEBRiRbUtsJH4DTvrkug3xKxjQibi8J-xxSbuYdpUpaQ-uxt3M9dRYVRbO5HR2ESKO6iKt03odP4BvkUVpbJ8M0jw/s1200/museums%20loot.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="747" data-original-width="1200" height="398" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JHM8FI8QYniOWQTfx3IbGGsiLzrynGKB2633_c9xCqK5Ahjlv5cN1BelJGqIlrefGYEzDaZQFIGgSYWuCHUe87HLSn1rmTvSUqEBRiRbUtsJH4DTvrkug3xKxjQibi8J-xxSbuYdpUpaQ-uxt3M9dRYVRbO5HR2ESKO6iKt03odP4BvkUVpbJ8M0jw/w640-h398/museums%20loot.jpg" width="640" /></a></div></h1><p align="center" style="margin: 0px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span face="Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif" style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">TODAY on NATIVE AMERICA CALLING</span></span></p> <table bgcolor="#d1c6df" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="layout layout--1-column" style="background-color: #d1c6df; table-layout: fixed; width: 100%;"> <tbody><tr> <td align="center" class="column column--1 scale stack" style="width: 100%;" valign="top">
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<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: black; font-weight: bold;">Why are museums taking down Native exhibitions?</span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>New language in the
Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) is
prompting museums to pull some Native items from public display. The
rule went into effect in January that requires museums to consult with
tribes more comprehensively when it comes to Native artifacts. That’s
because, even though they may not be the human remains or sacred items
that NAGPRA historically referenced, many items held by museums,
universities, and other institutions could have been looted from Native
sites or otherwise taken under suspicious circumstances.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> </span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span>LINK: <a href="https://www.nativeamericacalling.com">https://www.nativeamericacalling.com</a></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="cat-links"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="cat-links">👇 <br /></span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span class="cat-links"><a href="https://hyperallergic.com/category/opinion/" rel="category tag">Opinion</a></span> </p><h1 class="entry-title entry-title--with-subtitle">
<a href="https://hyperallergic.com/870144/return-the-stolen-artifact-but-keep-the-museum-label/" target="_blank">Return the Stolen Artifact, But Keep the Museum Label</a> </h1><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Some museums have chosen to explain the removals they had made for reasons including not wanting to display <a href="https://x.com/artcrimeprof/status/1286736406224699392?s=20">racial stereotypes</a>, reconsidering “<a href="https://x.com/debscavator/status/1724874079549743376?s=20">whose perspectives receive prominence in our collections</a>,” and discovering that an object was created by <a href="https://x.com/TheColimaDog/status/1724886415551373653?s=20">someone pretending</a> to represent a cultural tradition. I have also seen signs in the <a href="https://x.com/artcrimeprof/status/1286736406224699392?s=20">Denver Museum of Nature</a> and Manhattan’s <a href="https://twitter.com/artcrimeprof/status/1724858624307052860">American Museum of Natural History</a> (AMNH) explaining that <b><span style="background-color: #fcff01;">an empty slot in a case was once filled with an artifact restored to a Native American community</span></b>. </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">+ </span><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">During District Attorney Bragg’s tenure, the ATU has recovered more
than 800 antiquities stolen from 24 countries and valued at more than
$155 million. Since its creation, the ATU has recovered nearly 4,500
antiquities stolen from 29 countries and valued at more than $375
million.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Under District Attorney Bragg, the Antiquities Trafficking Unit (ATU)
has repatriated more than 950 antiquities stolen from 19 countries and
valued at more than $165 million. Since its creation, the ATU has
returned more than 2,450 antiquities to 24 countries and valued at more
than $230 million.</span></p><p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-two-7th-century-antiquities-to-china/" target="_blank">https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-two-7th-century-antiquities-to-china/ </a></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-two-7th-century-antiquities-to-china/" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: large;"><span> <br /></span></span></a></span></p><h1 itemprop="headline"></h1><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span><br /></span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-1543577720149871002024-01-31T00:21:00.002-05:002024-02-02T10:01:52.574-05:0060s Scoop Adoptee Tom Wilson (Mohawk)<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXSUlKAkvn-sUaRmfNWSuF2sj-04mXR6lN40w533eJLuVTsB5_JsqZ2UW8gKvqEQ0V_ai_HJ5r_4S5nAftb-Ru1gYv02ugu5ojbBUG3wuz7aQsXoGBSalUBhHJgyXHBPlDTrjoFA5op7XQhi_GnF6MYf1yLk82Oy87g2opY2VXElJGQys6jVD18jalyQ/s839/Screenshot%202024-01-30%20at%2019-13-54%20Tom%20Wilson-(Tehoh%E2%80%99ahake)%20A%20Force%20Of%20Nature%20-%20The%20Long%20Way%20Around%20Podcast%20Version.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="175" data-original-width="839" height="134" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXSUlKAkvn-sUaRmfNWSuF2sj-04mXR6lN40w533eJLuVTsB5_JsqZ2UW8gKvqEQ0V_ai_HJ5r_4S5nAftb-Ru1gYv02ugu5ojbBUG3wuz7aQsXoGBSalUBhHJgyXHBPlDTrjoFA5op7XQhi_GnF6MYf1yLk82Oy87g2opY2VXElJGQys6jVD18jalyQ/w640-h134/Screenshot%202024-01-30%20at%2019-13-54%20Tom%20Wilson-(Tehoh%E2%80%99ahake)%20A%20Force%20Of%20Nature%20-%20The%20Long%20Way%20Around%20Podcast%20Version.png" width="640" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1994999/14312298">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1994999/14312298</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://malcolmburn.substack.com/p/the-long-way-around-ep-291-tom-wilson" target="_blank">MALCOLM BURN</a> welcomes long time friend, musical force, Indigenous Canadian poet,
painter and all around entertainer Tom Wilson to discuss the creative
process, love and life. And as always with some excellent music. </span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> LISTEN: <a href="https://www.buzzsprout.com/1994999/14312298">https://www.buzzsprout.com/1994999/14312298</a></span></p><p><a class="" href="https://windspeaker.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b5f07cdffd4f6a67f590589ec&id=befdc0d2e8&e=9fae5b165a" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; mso-line-height-rule: exactly;" target="_blank" title="">
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</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://windspeaker.us9.list-manage.com/track/click?u=b5f07cdffd4f6a67f590589ec&id=3028daecbc&e=9fae5b165a" rel="noreferrer nofollow noopener" style="-ms-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; color: #007c89; font-weight: normal; mso-line-height-rule: exactly; text-decoration: underline;" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 24px;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica neue,helvetica,sans-serif;">Exhibit explores what it meant to Tom Wilson to be removed, then reconnected to his Mohawk heritage</span></span></a></div>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 16px;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva,sans-serif;">After
discovering he had been adopted and his birth parents were both Mohawk,
musician Tom Wilson has explored the deep impact those revelations have
had on his life. His new art exhibit <em>Mohawk Warriors, Hunters & Chiefs </em>opens Feb. 2 in Toronto and his new book of the same name is now available.</span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-71237361230096250572024-01-30T16:05:00.000-05:002024-01-30T16:05:12.764-05:00Carlisle: Sending childen home to die<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwHtz5_sWv9k-6hc56wPOv86U8U6Y8b5OsY4HiSK7J3ZjwIOKXZVfpT4Pcrm7dFlBYA7a84EdfMa7r-4AwDzB_nNHgVnZOGcTxUOVyajux7b-oI2ypAsiAYqDeQchEoWXjFkno3ZJAwcZa9dIWGJfRaa1Nocym0IdMiE5IiAEtmYDI2xFV_nVkA__5g/s1440/Screenshot%202024-01-30%20at%2016-01-14%20%E2%80%98Sending%20them%20home%20to%20die%E2%80%99.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="566" data-original-width="1440" height="252" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicwHtz5_sWv9k-6hc56wPOv86U8U6Y8b5OsY4HiSK7J3ZjwIOKXZVfpT4Pcrm7dFlBYA7a84EdfMa7r-4AwDzB_nNHgVnZOGcTxUOVyajux7b-oI2ypAsiAYqDeQchEoWXjFkno3ZJAwcZa9dIWGJfRaa1Nocym0IdMiE5IiAEtmYDI2xFV_nVkA__5g/w640-h252/Screenshot%202024-01-30%20at%2016-01-14%20%E2%80%98Sending%20them%20home%20to%20die%E2%80%99.png" width="640" /></a></div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">excerpt:</span><p></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible">Mary Annette Pember</strong><br data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" /><em data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><a data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" href="https://ictnews.org/">ICT</a></em></span></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">George
Little Wound was gravely ill when he was sent home to Pine Ridge from
the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in 1889, just three years after
arriving at the notorious boarding school.</span></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Little
Wound, the son of Chief Little Wound, was among a group of three Pine
Ridge students shipped home together with what the school physician
described as “incipient consumption” and “scrofula,” a disfiguring
infection of the skin and lymph nodes caused by the same bacteria as
tuberculosis, according to Carlisle records.</span></p><blockquote class="m-blockquote l-inline" data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><strong data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" style="font-family: Merriweather;"></strong></p></blockquote><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">All
three appeared to survive their illness for some time after they
returned to Pine Ridge, though Little Wound was never the same. Forever
weakened by the disease, he struggled to support himself and expressed
disgust with his school experience.</span></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I
went to [Carlisle] school to get a good education ... but I was greatly
mistaken when I went to school,” he wrote in 1911, in a tersely worded
survey he sent to Carlisle more than 20 years after returning home.</span></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“I
come home with sickness and do not know any thing.... and believe I may
never get well from the sickness which I brought from the school,” he
wrote. “I am in a miserable place and bad condition living in a one-room
log home without floor where I am unable to help myself.”</span></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"></p><blockquote><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Native populations across the country decreased by more than 100,000
during the early years of boarding schools, with about one third of the
total Native population <a data-pf_style_display="inline" data-pf_style_visibility="visible" href="https://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2006/summer/indian-census.html%20%20%20https://www.cairn.info/revue-annales-de-demographie-historique-2005-2-page-17.htm" rel="noopener" target="_blank">dying between 1860 and 1900</a>, mostly from diseases such as tuberculosis. </span></span></blockquote><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><br /></span><p></p><p data-pf_style_display="block" data-pf_style_visibility="visible"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://ictnews.org/news/sending-them-home-to-die" target="_blank">KEEP READING </a></span></p><p></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-9677646064061976512024-01-29T00:21:00.008-05:002024-01-29T00:21:00.132-05:00The Tribal Training and Certification Partnership at UMD trains social workers who work with Native American families<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bHSqR32QyZI" width="320" youtube-src-id="bHSqR32QyZI"></iframe></div><br /><br /><div class="block block-system block-system-main-block" data-block-plugin-id="system_main_block" id="block-bohannon-content"><article id="node-23146"><div class="boh-sidebar-left clearfix"><section class="boh--main">
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</article><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In 1978, Congress passed the <a href="https://www.bia.gov/bia/ois/dhs/icwa">Indian Child Welfare Act</a>
(ICWA) in response to Native American children being removed from their
homes and placed in foster care at disproportionate rates. Despite
regulation, those rates have remained high. <span style="background-color: #fcff01;">Today in Minnesota, Native
children are still 16 times more likely than white children to be placed
in foster care.</span></span></p><aside class="pullquote display-50"></aside><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">To address the issue, a two-day training program on ICWA was formed at UMD: The <a href="https://cehsp.d.umn.edu/tribal-training-and-certification-program/about-ttcp">Tribal Training and Certification Partnership</a>
(TTCP) trains incoming and current child protection workers in
Minnesota to work with Native families better. “Since January of 2020,
we have trained about 1600 county social workers,” said <a href="https://cehsp.d.umn.edu/tribal-training-and-certification-partnership/faculty-staff/larissa-littlewolf">Larissa Littlewolf</a>, associate director of the TTCP, and member of the Turtle Clan and Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">The training is part of the <a href="https://mnchildwelfaretraining.com/">Minnesota Child Welfare Training Academy</a>.
It begins with a historical context of the US government's interactions
with Native families that have led to decades of trauma, followed by
lessons on how to comply with ICWA. Eventually, all county social
workers in Minnesota who work with child protection cases will be
mandated to go through the training.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We’re really working on the
spirit of ICWA,” Littlewolf said. “Building relationships with families,
meeting them where they’re at.”</span></p><hr /><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Related articles:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a href="https://news.d.umn.edu/articles/preserving-native-families-2023">Preserving Native families</a><br /><a href="https://cehsp.d.umn.edu/articles/ttcp-director">Transforming child welfare</a><br /><a href="https://cehsp.d.umn.edu/articles/tribal-training-and-certification-partnership">Using an indigenous lens</a><br /><a href="https://cehsp.d.umn.edu/articles/tribal-child-welfare-workforce-grant">Federal grant to train tribal child welfare workers</a><br /><a href="https://www.mprnews.org/story/2023/06/12/heart-work-training-social-workers-to-keep-native-children-home">Heart work: Training social workers to keep Native children home</a> (MPR story)</span></p></div>
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<p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In Canada, research shows that 13 per cent of missing adults are <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/indigenous">Indigenous</a>, despite Indigenous people making up only 5 per cent of the population.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">“We
started MMIP [Investigations] because we thought, ‘What can we do on
the ground to bring tangible results to the families that need it the
most?'” said Vawn Jeddry co-founder of Alberta-based <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4p7cgqzP2Q8nzrm6VeMLrQ" rel="noopener" target="_blank">MMIP Investigations</a> and a member of English River First Nation.</span></p><blockquote><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">MMIP Investigations currently has private investigator licences in Alberta and British Columbia, <a href="https://mmipcanada.com/donate-today" rel="noopener" target="_blank">with charitable status in Alberta</a>, they’re working towards nation-wide charitable status as funding plays a big part in what they can offer.<span> </span></span></blockquote><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">LINK: <a href="https://globalnews.ca/news/10237884/first-nations-led-private-investigators-mmiwg-mmip/">https://globalnews.ca/news/10237884/first-nations-led-private-investigators-mmiwg-mmip/</a>
<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="372" scrolling="no" src="https://globalnews.ca/video/embed/10254475/" width="670"></iframe> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><h1 class="detailHeadline" lang="en"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">We'koqma'q First Nation raises signs as part of MMIWG campaign</span></h1><h2 class="deck" lang="en"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"The change should be occurring on a community level,' says chief</span></h2><div class="byline"><figure class="imageMedia author-image full"><div class="placeholder"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"></span></div></figure><div class="bylineDetails"><span class="authorText" data-cy="author-text" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><a class="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/author/oscar-baker-iii-1.3018996">Oscar Baker III</a></span><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> <span class="bullet"> · </span>CBC News <span class="bullet"> · </span></span></div></div><div data-cy="storyWrapper"><figure class="imageMedia leadmedia-story full"><div class="placeholder"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img alt="A sign that read Mi'kma'ki remembers the Missing and Murdered. An an Indigenous woman in a red top with a red hand print. " height="360" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7085383.1705430472!/fileImage/httpImage/image.jpeg_gen/derivatives/16x9_780/we-koqma-q-mmiwg-signs.jpeg" width="640" /></span></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">One of two signs that have been put up at both ends of We'koqma'q, on Cape Breton Island. (submitted by Annie Bernard-Daisley )</span></figcaption></figure><div class="story"><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Two new signs along
TransCanada Highway 105 passing through We'koqma'q First Nation in Nova
Scotia are meant to shine a light on the ongoing issue of missing and
murdered Indigenous women and girls.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Chief Annie Bernard-Daisley
said she wants to empower her community to tackle the underlying risk
factors that make Indigenous people targets of violence.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"One part of the signage is that change is needed," said Bernard-Daisley.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"The change should be occurring on a community level, community by community."</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Bernard-Daisley
said the signs in the community on Cape Breton Island, about
75 kilometres southwest of Sydney, N.S., have three key goals: to shine a
light on the ongoing issues, to deter human trafficking and <a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/ex-boyfriend-will-serve-14-years-for-killing-cassidy-bernard-abandoning-babies-1.6512729" target="_blank">to honour Cassidy Bernard.</a></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Bernard, Bernard-Daisley's
22-year-old cousin, was found dead in her home in 2018. Bernard's
ex-boyfriend Austin Dwight Isadore pleaded guilty to manslaughter and
child abandonment in 2022, and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"It was emotional for [Cassidy's mother] to see the signage in our community on many levels," said Bernard-Daisley. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><img alt="An Indigenous woman hold up a sign reading I need to be able to tell my children I did not stay silent." src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.5334501.1705430597!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_780/annie-bernard-daisley-she-is-cassidy-s-cousin.JPG" style="aspect-ratio: 1.6402116402116402;" /></div><figcaption class="image-caption">Annie
Bernard-Daisley at a rally in memory of her cousin Cassidy Bernard in
2019. Now chief of We'koqma'q, she says the signs are meant to keep the
conversation going around murdered and missing Indigenous women and
girls. (Brittany Wentzell/CBC)</figcaption></figure></span></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">She said We'koqma'q has worked to make the community safer and has applied for funding through Indigenous Service Canada's <a href="https://www.sac-isc.gc.ca/eng/1646081005051/1646081035664">Pathways to Safe Indigenous Communities Initiative</a>,
which has committed $120 million over five years (2021-2026) to improve
safety and well being in First Nation, Métis and Inuit communities.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Bernard-Daisley
said through the program she hopes to add sidewalks, street lights and
reliable taxi services to the First Nation. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"Those of us that are working on the front lines know what our community needs more than the government ever will," she said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">In
2019, the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women
and girls released its final report, with 231 calls for justice —
recommendations on how to end violence toward Indigenous women and
girls.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">CBC News released <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/newsinteractives/features/cfj-report-cards/">a report card in 2023</a> tracking progress on the calls for justice, and at the time only two calls were completed, with many still in progress.</span></p><h2><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">'A strong message'</span></h2><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Barry
Bernard from Eskasoni First Nation, co-designer of the sign, was at a
photo shoot working with a Mi'kmaw model when he thought about messaging
around MMIWG. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Once he saw the model with the red hand print, he said he knew it embodied strength. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"It's
a strong message to send out, but it's true there are still missing and
murdered Indigenous women and children today as we talk all around
North America," he said.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"I hope the message says that we need to educate everybody and it's not only just our problem, it's everybody's problem." </span></p><div><figure class="imageMedia image full"><div class="placeholder"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"><img alt="An Indigenous woman in a chair in her office. " height="267" src="https://i.cbc.ca/1.7045325.1701374422!/fileImage/httpImage/image.JPG_gen/derivatives/original_780/anita-boyle.JPG" style="aspect-ratio: 1.5012106537530265;" width="400" /></span></div><figcaption class="image-caption"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Anita
Boyle, executive director of Nignen women's shelter, says she'd like to
see communities return to traditional systems that valued women. (Oscar Baker III/ CBC )</span></figcaption></figure></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Anita
Boyle, executive director of Nignen, a women's shelter in Natoaganeg
First Nation in New Brunswick, said addressing the issue of missing and
murdered Indigenous women and girls is multifaceted.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">It would
require things such as ensuring law enforcement and the judicial system
understand the role intergenerational trauma plays in the lives of
Indigenous people, adequate housing for Indigenous women in urban
centres; and for men in Canada to get more education around intimate
partner violence. </span></p><div><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mmiwg-vigil-poorman-osoup-harrison-wilson-1.6604705" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="similarLinkText">Families of MMIWG say police neglected, mishandled investigations in their cases</span></a></li></ul><ul class="similarLinks"><li class="similarListItem"><a class="similarLink" data-contentid="" href="https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/unreserved-mmiwg-crisis-1.6743886" style="font-family: Merriweather;"><span class="similarLinkText">It's everyone's job to help end the MMIWG crisis, advocates say — and here's how</span></a></li></ul></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Ultimately she said she'd like to see Indigenous communities return to traditional systems that valued women.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"I
think that there's a lot that we could learn from going back to those
old values of respect, honesty, caring, sharing," said Boyle. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">"I think a lot of that has got displaced because of capitalism and colonization in general."</span></p></div></div><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;"> </span></p><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-25210652917140662752024-01-27T13:08:00.001-05:002024-01-27T13:08:06.689-05:00Who am I? Podcast with Michelle Gauvreau (Mohawk adoptee)<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Michelle-Rice-Gauvreau.jpg?w=378" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="574" data-original-width="378" height="574" src="https://www.courant.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/Michelle-Rice-Gauvreau.jpg?w=378" width="378" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br />LISTEN: <br /></span><p></p><div class="SHYTP"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a class="ik7nMd" href="https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5zaW1wbGVjYXN0LmNvbS85SHlkZXBmSA?sa=X&ved=0CAMQ4aUDahcKEwigvsn3kP6DAxUAAAAAHQAAAAAQAQ" tabindex="0">Thriving Adoptees - Healing, Inspiration & Empowerment For Adoptees</a></span><div class="Mji2k"><span style="font-size: medium;">Sep 14, 2023</span></div></div><div class="wv3SK"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><h1 class="wv3SK" style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Who Am I? Michelle Gauvreau</span></h1><div class="wv3SK"><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">How do you keep going when your world has been turned upside down?
When you find out that you've been lied to over and again? When the
shocking truth comes out. Listen in as Michelle shares her inspirational
story of resilience and dogged determination as she found out who she
really is.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Michelle Rice-Gauvreau is a native Mohawk woman born in
Canada and raised in Connecticut via an illegal adoption, which was
commonplace for many Indian babies throughout many years across North
America. She is a compassionate advocate for all adoptees looking for
their own truth, peace and hope. She hopes to instill her strength to
any adoptee struggling to find their way.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Michelle now works as a
legal professional for a prestigious law firm. She resides in
Connecticut with her husband of many years, and her two senior cats.
She enjoys traveling and learning more about native cultures far and
wide. </span></p><p><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">Find out more at:</span></p><p><a href="https://www.michellegauvreau.com/" style="font-family: Merriweather;">https://www.michellegauvreau.com/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.facebook.com/adopteesmatter">https://www.facebook.com/adopteesmatter</a></p><p><a href="https://twitter.com/ladystarre">https://twitter.com/ladystarre</a></p><p><a href="https://www.instagram.com/ladystarre/">https://www.instagram.com/ladystarre/</a></p><p><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-gauvreau-45755919/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelle-gauvreau-45755919/</a></p> </div><div class="wv3SK"><span style="font-family: Merriweather;">HARTFORD COURANT:</span></div><div class="wv3SK"><a href="https://www.courant.com/2023/10/02/finding-her-identity-an-indigenous-ct-womans-resilient-journey-to-making-peace/" style="font-family: Merriweather;">https://www.courant.com/2023/10/02/finding-her-identity-an-indigenous-ct-womans-resilient-journey-to-making-peace/</a><br /></div><div class="blogger-post-footer">Questions? EMAIL: laratrace@outlook.com</div>LThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.com0