Book Description
Previous edition, 1st, published in 1995.
Author : Billy Joe Jones
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781590318584
Previous edition, 1st, published in 1995.
Author : Native American Rights Fund
Publisher :
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 11,37 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Adoption
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Author : Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Publisher : American Indian Studies
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 22,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780870138607
In 1978, Congress enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), with the intent to "protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families." The history of the Act is a tangle of legal, social, and emotional complications. This collection brings together for the first time a multidisciplinary assessment of the law — with scholars, practitioners, lawyers, and social workers all offering perspectives on the value and importance of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
Author : Susan Devan Harness
Publisher : University of Nebraska Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 41,49 MB
Release : 2020-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1496219570
2019 High Plains Book Award Winner for the Creative Nonfiction and Indigenous Writer categories In Bitterroot Susan Devan Harness traces her journey to understand the complexities and struggles of being an American Indian child adopted by a white couple and living in the rural American West. When Harness was fifteen years old, she questioned her adoptive father about her “real” parents. He replied that they had died in a car accident not long after she was born—except they hadn’t, as Harness would learn in a conversation with a social worker a few years later. Harness’s search for answers revolved around her need to ascertain why she was the target of racist remarks and why she seemed always to be on the outside looking in. New questions followed her through college and into her twenties when she started her own family. Meeting her biological family in her early thirties generated even more questions. In her forties Harness decided to get serious about finding answers when, conducting oral histories, she talked with other transracial adoptees. In her fifties she realized that the concept of “home” she had attributed to the reservation existed only in her imagination. Making sense of her family, the American Indian history of assimilation, and the very real—but culturally constructed—concept of race helped Harness answer the often puzzling questions of stereotypes, a sense of nonbelonging, the meaning of family, and the importance of forgiveness and self-acceptance. In the process Bitterrootalso provides a deep and rich context in which to experience life.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 26,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Adoption
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Indian Affairs (1993- )
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 15,56 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Law
ISBN :
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Indian Affairs
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 18,57 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Indian children
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Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2005
Category :
ISBN : 1428931252
Author : Naomi Schaefer Riley
Publisher : Bombardier Books
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 16,12 MB
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1642936588
Kids in danger are treated instrumentally to promote the rehabilitation of their parents, the welfare of their communities, and the social justice of their race and tribe—all with the inevitable result that their most precious developmental years are lost in bureaucratic and judicial red tape. It is time to stop letting efforts to fix the child welfare system get derailed by activists who are concerned with race-matching, blood ties, and the abstract demands of social justice, and start asking the most important question: Where are the emotionally and financially stable, loving, and permanent homes where these kids can thrive? “Naomi Riley’s book reveals the extent to which abused and abandoned children are often injured by their government rescuers. It is a must-read for those seeking solutions to this national crisis.” —Robert L. Woodson, Sr., civil rights leader and president of the Woodson Center “Everyone interested in child welfare should grapple with Naomi Riley’s powerful evidence that the current system ill-serves the safety and well-being of vulnerable kids.” —Walter Olson, senior fellow, Cato Institute, Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies
Author : Michael Leroy Oberg
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2015-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1118714334
This history of Native Americans, from the period of first contactto the present day, offers an important variation to existingstudies by placing the lives and experiences of Native Americancommunities at the center of the narrative. Presents an innovative approach to Native American history byplacing individual native communities and their experiences at thecenter of the study Following a first chapter that deals with creation myths, theremainder of the narrative is structured chronologically, coveringover 600 years from the point of first contact to the presentday Illustrates the great diversity in American Indian culture andemphasizes the importance of Native Americans in the history ofNorth America Provides an excellent survey for courses in Native Americanhistory Includes maps, photographs, a timeline, questions fordiscussion, and “A Closer Focus” textboxes that providebiographies of individuals and that elaborate on the text, exposing students to issues of race, class, and gender