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Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents
twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in
non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with
each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural
identity formation. The participants of the study represent a range
of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption.
Regardless of their personal experiences, however, all twenty
respondents indicate that they are supporters of the Indian Child
Welfare Act and that they believe that Native children should be
raised in Native households whenever possible. However, eighteen of
the twenty respondents concede that non-Native families can raise
Native children to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults. Through
the interviews, Simon and Hernandez allow readers to better
understand the different experiences of Native American adoptees.
Native American Transracial Adoptees Tell Their Stories presents
twenty interviews with Native American adoptees raised in
non-Native homes. Through the in-depth interviews they conduct with
each participant, the authors explore complex questions of cultural
identity formation. The participants of the study represent a range
of positive and negative experiences of transracial adoption.
Regardless of their personal experiences, however, all twenty
respondents indicate that they are supporters of the Indian Child
Welfare Act and that they believe that Native children should be
raised in Native households whenever possible. However, eighteen of
the twenty respondents concede that non-Native families can raise
Native children to be happy, healthy, well-adjusted adults. Through
the interviews, Simon and Hernandez allow readers to better
understand the different experiences of Native American adoptees.
An emerging Lakota scholar’s critical interrogation of
settler-colonial nations that re-centers Oceti Sakowin (Dakota)
women as the tribe’s traditional culture keepers and bearers.We
Are the Stars is a literary recovery project that seeks to
reconstruct a genealogy of Oceti Sakowin (Dakota) literature, and
study in-depth the linkages between settler colonialism,
literature, nationalism, and gender via analy-sis of tribal and
settler colonial narratives about women and land.Sarah Hernandez
begins by exploring how settler colonizers used the printing press
and boarding schools to displace Oceti Sakowin women as traditional
culture keepers and bearers, with the goal of assimilating
completely the Dakota, Nakota, and Lakota nations. She then shifts
her focus to decolonization, exploring how contempo-rary Oceti
Sakowin writers and scholars have started to reclaim Dakota,
Nakota, and Lakota literatures to decolonize and heal their
families, communities, and nations.
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