tavella ([identity profile] tavella.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] 50books_poc 2009-03-08 11:09 pm (UTC)

There was definitely a period of cultural suppression -- "Indian schools" punishing children for speaking their own language, for example. And there were enough Indian children adopted out "for their own good" that the Indian Child Welfare Act (http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~adoption/topics/ICWA.html) was later passed. But nothing like 90 percent, certainly.

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