A mother unleashed ... s ripping children from their parents as an unconscionably evil government action.” According to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, beginning ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. In the late 19th century, the US government opened the first of 25 off ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. Editor’s note: This short piece accompanied “Forever Home” in the March ...

In 1978, Congress, after extensive hearings, found that public and private agencies had taken hundreds of thousands of American Indian children ... biological mother had another child, a girl ...

He recalled a 1997 case in which he represented an American Indian mother who’d put her child up for adoption and wanted to get her child back — after the child had been with his adoptive ...

More than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died over the course ... "I stand on the shoulders of my grandmother and my mother and the work we will do with the ...

In the early 20th century, Native people responded to the proclamation of Mother’s Day with powwows, ceremonies, rodeos, feasts, and songs that honor Native mothers. How do American Indians ...

It happened not long ago to the father of an American Indian child in South Dakota ... of some of the cases discussed in the transcripts: A mother abused by her boyfriend lost custody of her child ...

The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 sought ... Gabrielle Glaser is the author of “American Baby: A Mother, a Child, and the Secret History of Adoption.” Her reporting on this subject is ...

In the 1980s, when I was seven- or eight-years-old, on Sundays my mother and I would ... at Martha Stewart's salmon with "Indian spices." Unlike me, her American-born daughter, she saw Stewart's ...