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A Generation Removed

其他書名	The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
出版	U of Nebraska Press, 2014-09-01
主題	Family & Relationships / Adoption & FosteringHistory / Modern / 20th CenturySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / Native American StudiesSocial Science / Indigenous Studies
ISBN	08032765839780803276581
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SA34AwAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby VeronicaÕs biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. VeronicaÕs biological mother had relinquished her for adoption to the Capobiancos without BrownÕs consent. Although Brown regained custody of his daughter using the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Capobiancos, rejecting the purpose of the ICWA and ignoring the long history of removing Indigenous children from their families. ÊIn A Generation Removed, a powerful blend of history and family stories, award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government authorities in the postÐWorld War II era removed thousands of American Indian children from their families and placed them in non-Indian foster or adoptive families. By the late 1960s an estimated 25 to 35 percent of Indian children had been separated from their families. ÊJacobs also reveals the global dimensions of the phenomenon: These practices undermined Indigenous families and their communities in Canada and Australia as well. Jacobs recounts both the trauma and resilience of Indigenous families as they struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada.Ê