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 Veronica's biological father,
Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.
Veronica's biological mother had relinquished her for adoption to
the Capobiancos without Brown's 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. In "A Generation
Removed," a powerful blend of history and family stories,
award-winning historian Margaret D. Jacobs examines how government
authorities in the post-World 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. Jacobs 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.
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