The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 4

Suzette Brewer
June 12, 2013
Editor’s Note: The Baby Veronica Case, recently argued before the U.S. Supreme Court, is one of the most important Indian legal battles of the last generation...

The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part I

Suzette Brewer
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On MSNBC Sunday morning, April 28, TV host Melissa Harris-Perry likened the removal of American Indian children from their tribal communities, placed in non-Native homes, to unauth...
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I have been thinking a lot lately about Baby Veronica and how it came to be that this Native child was placed with white adoptive parents....

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Chelsea Vowel

Adoption as Cultural Annihilation

If you've heard the term 60s scoop and thought it had something to do with ice-cream in ye olden days, I'm here to enlighten you....

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On the rez, the kids at my school got into fights quite a bit. We had this saying, when one of the few white kids (or one of the Indian kids that “looked white”) who went to our school was involved: “A fight!...

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