The Indian Adoption Project was a federal program that acquired Indian children from 1958 to 1967 with the help of the prestigious Child Welfare League of America; a successor organization, the Adoption Resource Exchange of North America, functioned from 1966 until the early 1970s.

Conrad Eagle Feather, a Sicangu Lakota, was only three when he was taken from the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota and adopted by a non-Native farming family in the state of Nebraska.

In an excerpt from the introduction of Indians in the Family: Adoption and the Politics of Antebellum Expansion (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2017), author Dawn Peterson looks at a group of white slaveholders who adopted Southeast Indian boys (Choctaw, Creek, and Chickasaw) into their plantation households in the decades following the US Revolution.

The history of adoption in America in all its different forms. Where the views on childhood and children were completely different from how they are now. Important factors of adoption like homeless, boarding, indenture, baby farms, orphanages, orphan trains, and native american boarding schools are discussed.

Freelance photographer and writer, Joe Whittle, decides to document the experiences of some of the 140,000 Native Americans who call the Bay Area home. Many of which are disconnected from their tribal relations. Here are their stories.

Learning through the perspectives of Two-Spirited people themselves, feeling the experiences that changed them as well as learning the history behind Two-Spirited individuals.

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