Called Home: Book Two: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects

An important contribution to American Indian history told by its own lost children/adult survivors…An impressive second anthology of American Indian and First Nations adoptee narratives... Editors Patricia Busbee and Trace DeMeyer (Hentz) are writers and adoptees who reunited with their own lost relatives. From recent news about Baby Veronica to history like Operation Papoose, this book examines how Native American adoptees and their families experienced adoption and were exposed to the genocidal policies of governments who created Indian adoption projects.*******One quarter of all Indian children were removed from their families and placed in non-Indian adoptive and foster homes or orphanages, as part of the Indian Adoption Projects….. One study found that in sixteen states in 1969, 85 percent of the Indian children were placed in non-Indian homes.Where are these children now?
This new anthology “CALLED HOME” and the earlier work “TWO WORLDS: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects” are very important contributions to American Indian history. The editors Trace DeMeyer Hentz and Patricia Busbee, both adoptees, found other Native adult survivors of adoption and asked them to write a narrative. In the part one of Called Home, adoptees share their unique experience of living in Two Worlds, feeling CALLED HOME, surviving assimilation via adoption, opening sealed adoption records, and in most cases, a reunion with tribal relatives. Adoptees who wrote in Two Worlds provide updates in part two. In part three, adoptees still searching for their families share their birth information, date and location. Recent history about the Supreme Court case involving Baby Veronica and The New Normal: DNA is also covered by co-editor Trace DeMeyer Hentz.The new anthology CALLED HOME offers even more revelations of this hidden history of Indian child removals in North America, their impact on Indian Country and how it impacts the adoptee and their entire family.These unforgettable accounts of Native American adoptees will certainly challenge beliefs in the positive outcomes of closed adoptions in the US and Canada and exposes the genocidal policies of governments who created Indian adoption projects.

Patricia is an emerging author/editor/teacher and graduate of Evergreen State College and Goddard College. She has an MFA in creative writing. She received her education later in life. She enjoys the process of fusing fiction and non-fiction with poetry, art, and photography. Patricia is an adopted woman. She is also an adoptive parent. Standing on both sides of the fence continues to be a learning experience. She is of Cherokee-Shawnee, Irish, Welsh and German mix. Her family is multi-cultural. One of her daughter's is African American. Patricia's grandson is Turkish, Egyptian and Native American. Patricia is still in the process of reuniting with siblings, family members and places where her ancestors lived their lives. Patricia firmly believes that healing happens when we reconnect to ourselves, when we are truly heard and when we share our stories. __________________________________ Trace's memoir ONE SMALL SACRIFICE is a ground-breaking expose on the systematic removal of American Indian children from their mothers, families and tribes for adoption to non-Indian families and she weaves in her own personal story. DeMeyer-Hentz started research on adoptees in 2004. Her discoveries and research culminated in a fact-filled book she published in 2010, then a second revised edition in 2012. In 2009, she started her blog about American Indian Adoptees: www.splitfeathers.blogspot.com. In 2012, Patricia and Trace co-edited and published [book one] TWO WORLDS: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects, using Blue Hand Books as its publisher. This ground-breaking collection of adoptee narratives and its contribution to American Indian and First Nations history is a major accomplishment and the editors were invited to present on a panel at Brock University in Ontario in 2014. Trace contributed to new adoption-themed books Adoptionland, Adoption Reunion in the Age of Social Media, and the Lost Daughters anthology. She teaches social media and blogging at Greenfield Community College and operates Blue Hand Books as a collective with other Native American writers/authors. Trace Lara Hentz is the new name she uses. She lives at the foot of the Berkshire Mountains in Massachusetts with her husband Herb."