Agliaku : bringing them home / Gene Thin Elk -- Introduction: The Indian Child Welfare Act and adult adoptees and fostered individuals / Terry Cross -- "A child of the Indian race" -- The first trip home -- Growing up, growing alone -- Isolation is familiar -- Wings on a dream -- A seed is planted -- The seed is nurtured -- The song -- Defining a movement -- Welcoming them home -- Reconciliation begins with the individual -- The work -- Words of witness -- Repatriation -- Finding our place in the circle -- Appendix 1: Child Welfare League of America 2001 apology -- Appendix 2: The National Congress of American Indians Resolution #SD-02-037.
Summary:
"An adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into-- and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same." -- Provided by publisher.
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