● The Imprint profiles Sandy White Hawk, author of A Child of the Indian Race. The book describes how she was forced into an abusive white adoptive home during the era of mass adoption of Native children, before passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act. She went on to reclaim her Native identity and establish the First Nations Repatriation Institute in Minnesota – the state with the worst record of anti-Native racism in family policing.
● Based on her extensive research, Prof. Kelley Fong writes in The Imprint about why the so-called Adoption and Safe Families Act is “A Dangerous Tool in An Arbitrary System.”
● A terrible mistake by a former Arizona governor 20 years ago still reverberates today. Now, a new governor appears determined not to repeat it. I have a column about it for the Arizona Republic.
● There is more
tragic evidence of the urgent need for change in Arizona in this Associated Press story
about the death of a foster child. Said
the boy’s father: “They couldn’t keep him alive for two weeks, two weeks.”
● Even at its worst Arizona looks good compared to Montana, which year after year tears apart families at one of the highest rates in the nation. I have a post on this blog about a proposed law that might go a long way to change that.
