Table of Contents

List of Illustrations    
Acknowledgments    
A Note on Terms    
Abbreviations    
Simon Ortiz’s Question    
Introduction    
Prologue    
Part 1. Taking Care of American Indian Children
Modern Indian Life    
Chapter 1. The Bureaucracy of Caring for Indian Children    
Dana’s Story    
Chapter 2. Caring about Indian Children in a Liberal Age    
Part 2. The Indian Child Welfare Crisis in Indian Country
John’s Story    
Chapter 3. Losing Children    
Meeting Steven Unger    
Chapter 4. Reclaiming Care    
Interviewing Bert Hirsch and Evelyn Blanchard    
Chapter 5. The Campaign for the Indian Child Welfare Act    
Part 3. The Indian Child Welfare Crisis in a Global Context
Tracking Down the Doucette Family    
Chapter 6. The Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis in Canada    
Meeting Aunty Di    
Chapter 7. The Indigenous Child Welfare Crisis in Australia and Transnational Activism    
Finding Russell Moore    
Chapter 8. Historical Reckoning with Indigenous Child Removal in Settler Colonial Nations    
Afterword    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    
 

About the Author

Margaret D. Jacobs is Chancellor’s Professor of History at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. She is the author of the Bancroft Prize–winning White Mother to a Dark Race: Settler Colonialism, Maternalism, and the Removal of Indigenous Children in the American West and Australia, 1880–1940 (Nebraska, 2009) and After One Hundred Winters: In Search of Reconciliation on America’s Stolen Lands, among other books.

Reviews

"Using compelling stories and weighty evidence, Jacobs has uncovered a modern and ongoing story of child-stealing in the United States. She lays out the shocking history of Native American adoption and the good liberal logic that enabled it in a page-turner of a book." - Anne F. Hyde, Bancroft Prize-winning author of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 "Jacobs brings deep scholarship to a topic of searing national and transnational importance. In a respectful, clear voice, she guides the reader on a journey into the most intimate corridors of settler colonialism. This is a complex and often heart-wrenching history that provides salutary lessons for the future." - Ann McGrath, director of the Australian Centre for Indigenous History at Australian National University and coauthor of How to Write History that People want to Read "Margaret Jacobs once again demonstrates her genius for writing history that combines penetrating analysis with heart-wrenching stories. Beautifully written, deeply researched, this important and amazing book examines a subject largely unknown to the public at large but all too familiar to Indigenous peoples who have suffered the pain and indignity of child removal." - David Wallace Adams, author of Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 "A Generation Removed will find a large and interested readership among researchers, university students (of all levels), as well as the broader community of people involved in adoption. This book is also clearly written and is sophisticated without being overly specialized or jargon-ridden... An admirable book, compelling to read despite the tragic stories it recounts." - Karen Dubinsky, author of Babies without Borders: Adoption and Migration across the Americas