Remembering the "Forgotten Child": The American Indian Child Welfare Crisis of the 1960s and 1970s

Autor/in	Jacobs, Margaret D.
Titel	Remembering the "Forgotten Child": The American Indian Child Welfare Crisis of the 1960s and 1970s
Quelle	In: American Indian Quarterly, 37 (2013) 1-2, S.136-159 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0095-182X
DOI	10.1353/aiq.2013.0014
Schlagwörter	Placement; Child Welfare; American Indians; Mothers; Adoption; Foster Care; Whites; Social Services; United States History; American Indian History; Social Influences; Cultural Influences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Betriebspraktikum; Praktikum; Kindeswohl; American Indian; Indianer; Mother; Mutter; Pflegehilfe; White; Weißer; Social service; Soziale Dienstleistung; Soziale Dienste; Sozialer Einfluss; Cultural influence; Kultureinfluss
Abstract	On Christmas Day 1975, Marcia Marie Summers was born to Charlene Summers, a member and resident of the Standing Rock Sioux Nation in North Dakota. A few months later, a white couple from Indiana approached the young mother and offered to care for her infant while Summers attended school. Summers realized that the couple intended to permanently adopt her daughter, so she asked the Standing Rock Tribal Court to intervene. When the couple ignored the tribal court's order to return the child to her mother, Summers and tribal authorities requested the help of the Association on American Indian Affairs (AAIA). Like Summers, in the 1960s and 1970s, thousands of other American Indian parents, grandparents, and caretakers suffered the removal of their children and their placement in non-Indian foster or adoptive homes. Unlike Summers, however, many Indian families struggled for years to regain their children, and some were never able to effect their return. How did it come to pass that the fostering and adoption of Indian children outside their families and communities had reached these crisis proportions by the late 1960s? State welfare authorities and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) officials alleged a dramatic rise in unmarried Indian mothers with unwanted children and claimed that many Indian individuals and families lacked the resources and skills to properly care for their own children. Claiming to be concerned with the best interests of the Indian child, the BIA promoted the increased fostering and adoption of Indian children in non-Indian families. (Contains 69 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10