tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post161161217026068964..comments2024-03-21T04:45:43.081-04:00Comments on AMERICAN INDIAN ADOPTEES: Grief Memoir: Mothers at the Catholic Infant HomeLThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-31813198131345073372013-01-25T08:49:20.048-05:002013-01-25T08:49:20.048-05:00Anonymous, thank you for your sharing your truth a...Anonymous, thank you for your sharing your truth and your story. We share in this loss. This blog is meant to give voice to our long struggle to regain our rights as tribal citizens. Email me and we can talk: tracedemeyer@yahoo.comLThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08395257432521760435noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6969975344623261.post-87351690002011568372013-01-25T00:37:09.064-05:002013-01-25T00:37:09.064-05:00I am an adoptee...one with a history that is so ho...I am an adoptee...one with a history that is so horrendous it is hard to believe. When I look back at how my birth father's life was destroyed and his mother's life was destroyed because of foster care and because of forced Catholic boarding schools it really angers me. <br /><br />We all have been stripped of our identity....they have passed on because of drugs and alcohol - but I live the life of having grown up in a purely white community with a white family, and not looking at all like anyone around me - and in my opinion it does matter - being given to a "loving" family doesn't make everything okay for that child, we deal with questions, looks, racism every...single...day. Being removed from the only home a child knows simply because of poverty isn't always what is best for that child.<br /><br /><br />Adoptees and foster children that have been removed and raised elsewhere never fit in anywhere...most of us are lost, why do you have hair, eyes, skin, nose, lips etc like that, .....I have yet to meet one that has been openly, warmly accepted into either community. And since we have the susceptibility to drug/alcohol abuse it takes a hold of many and never lets go until death....so the removal of the children in what was supposedly for the benefit of the child doesn't work.<br /><br />Then jumping through all the governmental hoops simply to get your original birth certificate, even with proof of aunts, cousin's and they are tribal members and your line is documented back for many generations, even with original adoption decree's you wait, and wait and ask what is taking so long, why doesn't anyone have an answer as to where they are in the processing of your paperwork....a year has passed. It means nothing to them, but to you....you miss powwow/family gathering after family gathering as those in control go on about their lives.<br /><br /><br />Your blog is the only one I have come across for the longest time that even touches on this sore subject and I am happy to see it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com