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Please join Lynn and I as we talk about chapter 2 of Conceiving Christian America; Embryo Adoption and Reproductive Politics by Risa Cromer, along with a brief discussion of whats happening in Texas. Mentioned in the episode Conceiving Christian America (nyupress.org)The Child Catchers: Rescue, Trafficking, and the New Gospel of Adoption: Joyce, Kathryn: 9781586489427: Amazon.com: BooksRelinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood: Sisson, Gretchen: 9781250286772: Amazon.com: BooksReview: THE VIOLENCE OF FAMILY FORMATION: ENSLAVED FAMILIES AND REPRODUCTIVE LABOR IN THE MARKETPLACE on JSTOR'Orphan Trains' Brought Homeless NYC Children to Work On Farms Out West | HISTORYHistorian: American Indian Boarding Schools and Their Impact | TIMEIndian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) | Indian Affairs (bia.gov)Throwback Tulsa: Supreme Court reverses 'Baby Veronica' decision 10 years ago today (tulsaworld.com)Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) (Haaland v. Brackeen) - Native American Rights Fund (narf.org)This Land | Crooked Media https://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/parenting/inside-texas-manipulative-adoption-marketing-campaign-that-targets-young-women-and-teen-girls/ar-BB1kicOr?ocid=socialshare The hosts approach the book and any supplemental materials from the perspective of adopted people, as a female identifying person and a non-binary person, as a straight person and as a bisexual person, as a transracial domestic adoptee, and as a same race white adoptee. Any errors in presenting the authors material is that of the hosts. The hosts opinions are their own. Thank you for listening! We hope you will join us for the next episode in the series. Also, stay tuned for a follow up interview on the situation with efforts to pass a clean bill in Virginia, and a series of interviews with California adoptees seeking to educate Californians on the need for equal rights to original birth documents in their state.
Last week, the Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act in a case called Haaland v. Brackeen. The decision comes almost exactly 10 years after the Supreme Court ruled in Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, which planted the seed for last week's big ruling. To mark the new landmark decision, More Perfect re-airs the Radiolab episode that tells the story of two families, a painful history, and a young girl caught in the middle. Voices in the episode include: • Allison Herrera — KOSU Indigenous Affairs reporter • Matt and Melanie Capobianco — Veronica's adoptive parents • Dusten Brown — Veronica's biological father • Mark Fiddler — attorney for the Capobiancos • Marcia Zug — University of South Carolina School of Law professor • Bert Hirsch — attorney formerly of the Association on American Indian Affairs • Chrissi Nimmo — Deputy Attorney General for Cherokee Nation • Terry Cross — founding executive director of the National Indian Child Welfare Association (now serving as senior advisor) • Lori Alvino McGill — attorney for Christy Maldonado, Veronica's biological mother Learn more: • 2013: Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl • 2023: Haaland v. Brackeen • "Baby Veronica belongs with her adoptive parents" by Christy Maldonado • "Doing What's Best for the Tribe" by Marcia Zug • "The Court Got Baby Veronica Wrong" by Marcia Zug • "A Wrenching Adoption Case" by The New York Times Editorial Board • National Indian Child Welfare Association • In Trust podcast, reported by Allison Herrera Supreme Court archival audio comes from Oyez®, a free law project by Justia and the Legal Information Institute of Cornell Law School. Support for More Perfect is provided in part by The Smart Family Fund. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @moreperfectpodcast, and Twitter @moreperfect.
The fight against the Indian Child Welfare Act is much bigger than a few custody cases, or even the entire adoption industry. We follow the money, and our investigation leads us to a powerful group of corporate lawyers and one of the biggest law firms in the country. Show Notes This Land website https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/ Resources For Survivors https://crooked.com/resources-for-survivors/ Resources For Journalists & Investigators https://crooked.com/resources-for-journalists-investigators/ Have a tip? Share it with our reporting team via SecureDrop https://criticalfrequency.org/securedrop/ Mashpee Wampanoag face double crisis: COVID-19 and feds https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/mashpee-wampanoag-face-double-crisis-covid-19-and-feds Interior takes reservation away from Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/interior-takes-reservation-away-from-mashpee-wampanoag-tribe Mashpee Wampanoag ruling a 'win for all of Indian Country' https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/mashpee-wampanoag-ruling-a-win-for-all-of-indian-country The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 1 https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-fight-for-baby-veronica-part-1 The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 2 https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-fight-for-baby-veronica-part-2 The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 3 https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-fight-for-baby-veronica-part-3 The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 4 https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-fight-for-baby-veronica-part-4 The Fight for Baby Veronica, Part 5 https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/the-fight-for-baby-veronica-part-5 Supreme Court Takes on Indian Child Welfare Act in Baby Veronica Case https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/supreme-court-takes-on-indian-child-welfare-act-in-baby-veronica-case For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/thisland. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This will send chills up your spine... follow what happened to Baby Veronica
Elaine Willman MPA, provides perspective on American Indian Policy. Please visit her website thiswestisourwest.com and consider meeting her in person in Whitefish, MT on October 13, 2018!!! 00:01 - Bio http://www.klamathbasincrisis.org/AskElaine/bio.htm 00:03 - CTM https://www.caravantomidnight.com/Episode/EpisodesDetails?Id=319 00:04 - thiswestisourwest.com 00:06 - Uranium One http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/02/08/obama-era-russian-uranium-one-deal-what-to-know.html 00:07 - Hearth Act of 2012 https://www.bia.gov/bia/ots/hearth 00:09 - Residential schools https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/residential-schools 00:11 - Indian Child Welfare Act https://www.nicwa.org/about-icwa/ 00:14 - Baby Veronica http://www.saveveronica.org/ 00:16 - “Going To Pieces” https://www.amazon.com/Going-Pieces-Dismantling-United-America/dp/1604144920 00:27 - Indian Gaming Regulatory Act https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/25/chapter-29 00:28 - Turning Stone Casino https://www.turningstone.com/ 00:29 - Salamanca https://www.nytimes.com/1997/04/20/nyregion/a-standoff-in-a-city-often-in-crisis.html 00:34 - Trail of Tears https://www.history.com/topics/native-american-history/trail-of-tears 00:40 - Hobart, WI https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/2284025/oneida-tribe-of-wi-v-village-of-hobart-wi/ 00:51 - Crow v MT https://www.oyez.org/cases/1997/96-1829 01:01 - NDP https://edmontonjournal.com/news/politics/ndp-bill-looks-to-ban-conversion-therapy 01:02 - China treaty https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/31/justin-trudeau-kinder-morgan-pipeline-china-did-he-fear-being-sued 01:04 Kinder Morgan TransMountain Pipeline https://vancouversun.com/business/local-business/kinder-morgans-7-4-billion-trans-mountain-oil-pipeline-expansion-what-we-know-so-far 01:24 - Bundys https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/10/politics/hammonds-trump-pardon/index.html 01:25 - “Dead Man Talking” https://lowervalleyassembly.us/2018/06/05/lavoy-dead-man-talking-screening-in-prosser-june-26th-2018/ 01:26 - Uniting Western States Conference http://www.thiswestisourwest.com/ 01:28 - Klamath dams https://www.redding.com/story/news/2018/07/01/klamath-river-dam-removal-project-nations-largest-moves-forward/749654002/ 01:30 - Joe Robertson’s pond http://www.freerangereport.com/index.php/2017/05/28/feds-imprison-veteran-for-making-improvements-to-his-own-property/ 01:33 - Federal Lands Policy Act https://www.blm.gov/or/regulations/files/FLPMA.pdf 01:34 - NJ v federal gaming laws https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2018/05/14/supreme-court-strikes-down-ban-sports-betting-new-jersey/1053022001/ 01:37 - SA bans satire https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/saudia-arabia-social-media-satire-jail-sentences-twitter-facebook-censorship-a8523781.html 01:45 - justice@trufauxsho.com Thank you to Skype for intro music and telecoms. Thank you to everyone who has donated financial support. I truly appreciate it. Please consider supporting this show patreon.com/trufauxsho Visit the webpage: trufauxsho.com Send me an email: trufauxsho@gmail.com Thank you for listening, sharing and reviewing the show! Thanks to Grimerica.ca/support for use of the igloo.
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Native families has long been known, discussed, and challenged in Indian Country. Now, because of an interview on Dr. Phil with the white South Carolina couple seeking to adopt Veronica, the issue went national. Veronica’s mother had agreed to the adoption, but her father, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, wanted to raise her. And according to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), Indian children should grow up in Indian families whenever possible. The Supreme Court disagreed. In a 5-4 decision in June 2013, they remanded the case to the South Carolina Supreme Court, who promptly placed Veronica with the white couple. This story opens Margaret D. Jacobs’ new book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). But instead of trading in the shallow myths that characterized mainstream media coverage of the “Baby Veronica” case, Jacobs offers a nuanced and often troubling history that puts such incidents in context, documenting the mid-century explosion of adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by white families, not only in the United States but other settler colonial countries like Australia and Canada. Jacobs’ book is one of trauma and violence, but also of courage and resistance, as Indigenous families struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Native families has long been known, discussed, and challenged in Indian Country. Now, because of an interview on Dr. Phil with the white South Carolina couple seeking to adopt Veronica, the issue went national. Veronica’s mother had agreed to the adoption, but her father, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, wanted to raise her. And according to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), Indian children should grow up in Indian families whenever possible. The Supreme Court disagreed. In a 5-4 decision in June 2013, they remanded the case to the South Carolina Supreme Court, who promptly placed Veronica with the white couple. This story opens Margaret D. Jacobs’ new book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). But instead of trading in the shallow myths that characterized mainstream media coverage of the “Baby Veronica” case, Jacobs offers a nuanced and often troubling history that puts such incidents in context, documenting the mid-century explosion of adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by white families, not only in the United States but other settler colonial countries like Australia and Canada. Jacobs’ book is one of trauma and violence, but also of courage and resistance, as Indigenous families struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Native families has long been known, discussed, and challenged in Indian Country. Now, because of an interview on Dr. Phil with the white South Carolina couple seeking to adopt Veronica, the issue went national. Veronica’s mother had agreed to the adoption, but her father, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, wanted to raise her. And according to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), Indian children should grow up in Indian families whenever possible. The Supreme Court disagreed. In a 5-4 decision in June 2013, they remanded the case to the South Carolina Supreme Court, who promptly placed Veronica with the white couple. This story opens Margaret D. Jacobs’ new book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). But instead of trading in the shallow myths that characterized mainstream media coverage of the “Baby Veronica” case, Jacobs offers a nuanced and often troubling history that puts such incidents in context, documenting the mid-century explosion of adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by white families, not only in the United States but other settler colonial countries like Australia and Canada. Jacobs’ book is one of trauma and violence, but also of courage and resistance, as Indigenous families struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Native families has long been known, discussed, and challenged in Indian Country. Now, because of an interview on Dr. Phil with the white South Carolina couple seeking to adopt Veronica, the issue went national. Veronica’s mother had agreed to the adoption, but her father, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, wanted to raise her. And according to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), Indian children should grow up in Indian families whenever possible. The Supreme Court disagreed. In a 5-4 decision in June 2013, they remanded the case to the South Carolina Supreme Court, who promptly placed Veronica with the white couple. This story opens Margaret D. Jacobs’ new book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). But instead of trading in the shallow myths that characterized mainstream media coverage of the “Baby Veronica” case, Jacobs offers a nuanced and often troubling history that puts such incidents in context, documenting the mid-century explosion of adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by white families, not only in the United States but other settler colonial countries like Australia and Canada. Jacobs’ book is one of trauma and violence, but also of courage and resistance, as Indigenous families struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Native families has long been known, discussed, and challenged in Indian Country. Now, because of an interview on Dr. Phil with the white South Carolina couple seeking to adopt Veronica, the issue went national. Veronica’s mother had agreed to the adoption, but her father, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, wanted to raise her. And according to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA), Indian children should grow up in Indian families whenever possible. The Supreme Court disagreed. In a 5-4 decision in June 2013, they remanded the case to the South Carolina Supreme Court, who promptly placed Veronica with the white couple. This story opens Margaret D. Jacobs’ new book, A Generation Removed: The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World (University of Nebraska Press, 2014). But instead of trading in the shallow myths that characterized mainstream media coverage of the “Baby Veronica” case, Jacobs offers a nuanced and often troubling history that puts such incidents in context, documenting the mid-century explosion of adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by white families, not only in the United States but other settler colonial countries like Australia and Canada. Jacobs’ book is one of trauma and violence, but also of courage and resistance, as Indigenous families struggled to reclaim the care of their children, leading to the ICWA in the United States and to national investigations, landmark apologies, and redress in Australia and Canada. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Guest: Cedric Woods, Director of the Institute for New England Native American Studies, UMass BostonInterviewed by: Rachel Rubin
THIS WEEK, Mass Moviecide Producer Rodney E. Reyes is in the studio as we discuss everything from the choices we make getting dressed in the morning, to the most recent viral video sensations. We talk a little tv, and ponder both sides of the Baby Veronica story. Rodney visits Foam-Henge on a trip to the southern US states, and we also argue the various forms of comedian joke theft. It’s all right here on the Mass Moviecide PREGAME!