Diane Tells His Name, Suzie Fedorko*, Julie Missing and Trace DeMeyer* are featured along with the first Lost Bird. The baby who survived the Wounded Knee Massacre of 1890 became known as Zintkala Nuni, or, in Lakota, "Lost Bird."
For more than one hundred years, U.S. policies and practices separated Native American children from their families. Prior to 1978, when the Indian Child Welfare Act went into effect, Native American children were regularly plucked from their homes and sent to live with non-Natives. Some children grew up surrounded by love; others suffered enormous hardships. Many had a powerful desire to reconnect with the culture that they had lost.
In "Lost Birds," we profile four adopted women who sought out their Native American roots. Read the stories of how each woman came to discover and connect with her true heritage. - from the Al Jazeera website
* Trace and Suzie are contributors and writers in the new anthology CALLED HOME: Book 2: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects. Diane Tells His Name is a contributor in the anthology TWO WORLDS (Book 1)
That pic is adorable but sadly too adorable as the evil eyes that stalk their prey by( THE LEGAL)Innocent children without a voice to say anything to any adult or court,all they know is those new people holding her makes her feel strange.Alot of children held by their first real only parents turn from a strange person touching and smiling to the and many cry and don't want their parents near those strange people.The child senses the new people do not have their parents scent like an animal in their way.An experiment was made to get a crying baby to sleep,I think it was one of the groups of loss to adoption not sure or it was an article from a newspaper that made something so cuddly and with the scent by rubbing the cuddle log? In the bassenet with the newborn and the baby recognized that scent and the tantrum was over and then fast asleep.I thought that was ingenius as I had heard about the stuffed animal with the heart beat.I just hope the adoptives know that their scent is what will make the baby cry not having it and they cannot release that one perfect scent that belongs to that baby only ,no other babyl.To see that face and know that she has a different heritage that's as old as the people that first landed here.Wonder what their spirits would be saying ?,What if they came back through another child with the indain heritage?.I wish more American Indains would come out and speak what happened and what would they do to correct mans (in thing) new world full of mixed up people that have no guidance because they quit believing something else is above them.The little girl knows more than shes allowed to say so now shes speaking out to this world and what better to trust than a child -they don't know malious or learned professional lying ,those without emotional problems are usually caused by the separation,and we the mothers know well how long ago this happened.Children have early rememberences broke through thhe walls of experience with the mother ,many GYNS used to cut the cord but before putting newborn onto her belly with the traits of their 1st parents and I would like to know from a mother or adoptee smells the scent for the first some second time (rare)That goes back to the book the Primal Wound and the life giving cord that carrys the stem cells and now everbody wants a piece of the mothers body.Then turned the industry into a mass kaos production.
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