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"This moving and informative renders an account of Maine’s Wabanaki -State Truth and Commission, convened in 2012, whose task was to investigate the treatment of Native American children in the state of Maine from 1978 to 2012, to write a report, and to make recommendations. The work of the Commission is interspersed with poignant accounts of the treatment of the now-adult children forcibly taken from their parents, and of the parents whose children had been devastatingly ripped from them. To contrast with this historical experience, the movie also pictures present-day Native American ceremonies with multigenerational participants—most movingly, toddlers learning dances and rituals from their grandparents. The makes obvious the brutal injustices of child removal, concluding as the Commission itself eventually does, that the white community perpetrated cultural genocide on the Native American community in this practice."
Dawnland by Adam Mazo and Ben Pender-Cudlip ( )
Martha Satz
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press on Project MUSE
Volume 8, Issue 1, 2020
pp. 119-121
Click to read: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2020.0015
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"As a Korean adoptee engaged in critical adoption studies , my personal perspectives and academic pursuits are inherently intertwined. Because I come from an interdisciplinary Ethnic Studies background, the scholars and writers who influence and inform my work are diverse in their perspectives, disciplines, and methodologies. In my own research, I draw from the creative voices of transracial adoptee writers, frameworks of gendered colonialism, the interdisciplinary field of Asian American Studies, and the emerging scholarship of Korean adoption studies. My academic engagement with these bodies of research and wisdom has led to not only clarity in my own research, but has contributed to defining my sense of self as a transracial, transnational adoptee."
"Points of Origin: Finding Self in Critical Adoption Studies Research"
By Kira Donnell
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2021
pp. 325-340
Click to read: https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2021.0015
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