THE COUNT 2024: SURVEY FOR NATIVE ADOPTEES

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THE COUNT 2024 – SURVEY of NATIVE AMERICAN FIRST NATIONS ADOPTEES

FILL OUT WHAT YOU KNOW AS BEST YOU CAN. (Adoptees may not have all this information. ) If you are born in the US or Canada and were adopted, PLEASE PRINT and FILL out THIS SURVEY.  Make copies.  SAVE this paperwork in a safe place. (USE INK PEN)

TRIBALLY ENROLLED? Yes or No or Unsure. (circle one)

USA or CANADA?

 

IN REUNION? Yes or No.

YOUR BIRTH NAME:

YOUR ADOPTED NAME:

BIRTHDATE: (if known)

Where were you born?

CITY:

STATE/PROVINCE:

RESERVATION:

HOSPITAL:

BIRTH PARENTS NAMES:

 

ADOPTIVE PARENTS NAMES:

 

Original Birth Certificate : do you have a copy? Yes or No.

Fake Birth Certificate : do you have a copy? Yes or No.

MOST IMPORTANT: YOUR CONTACT INFORMATION:

HOME PHONE: (     )

MESSAGE PHONE: (a friend or relative) (     )

CELLPHONE: (      )

EMAIL: 

 

YOUR MAILING ADDRESS:

 

Did you have ADOPTEE SIBLINGS:  NAME, BIRTH DATES

100% CONFIDENTIAL

THIS PRIVATE INFORMATION will be used later to create a class action lawsuit.  Adoptees will be required to file an AFFIDAVIT with the court system at a later date.  This form and copies of your original adoption documents will be needed.

The count is to determine how many children were adopted through state and federal programs.

No accurate account has ever been published before.

It could be millions.

SHARE THIS SURVEY WITH OTHER ADOPTEES.

 

EACH MEMBER OF YOUR FAMILY WHO IS AN ADOPTEE NEEDS A FORM COMPLETED IN HIS OR HER NAME.

If you are born in the US or Canada, please complete this survey and print, store a copy in a safe place. 

If you are an adoptive parent or the birth parent of Native children (living or dead), fill out this form for each child.

If you know an adoptee who is incarcerated, fill out this form for them or mail them a copy of this survey. (LET US KNOW VIA EMAIL THEIR NAME AND PRISON AND PRISON NUMBER)

If you know an adoptee who committed suicide, fill out this survey form for them.

If you are the child of an adoptee who is deceased, fill out this form with your information.

QUESTIONS:

 

EMAIL: tracelara@pm.me to request a COPY OF THIS FORM.

Later, you will be given an address to mail COPIES of your adoption documents. 

KEEP THE ORIGINAL ADOPTION DOCUMENTS in a safe secure place.

MAIL SURVEY TO:

Trace Hentz

General Delivery

Greenfield, MA 01301

Who are we Looking For? Lost Birds Adoptees in US and Canada

The COUNT is meant to find all the Native Adoptees who were sent from the USA to Canada, Canada to the USA, or to parts of Europe, even Iceland, Australia, etc....  Also the adoptees who were a part of the INDIAN ADOPTION PROJECTS, more than one in the USA.  And we hope to find Native American/First Nations adoptees who could be anywhere in the world.

WHY? No one has ever published an actual count, one that we can look at and trust. It's long overdue.

WHAT WE KNOW:

Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project

Officially, only 395 Native children from 16 States were adopted in the scope of the IAP contract.  Thirty-one agencies under contract with the League participated in the project.  Realistically, the adoption of Native children in white families went far beyond Lyslo’s expectation as other non-member agencies made adoptive placements for Native children.  Many sources bear out this view: 

A letter dated July 6, 1962 written by Joseph H. Reid underlined that 585 Indian children had been adopted in 1961.

 A report written by Lyslo on October 11, 1966 presenting the results of the participation of 66 adoption agencies revealed that 696 children from Indian origins had been adopted in 1965.

A report that the Association on American Indian Affairs released to the Senate Commission in 1977 stated that 11,157 Native children were adopted between 1964 and 1976 (survey for 13 states).

A letter from Arlene L Nash, director of ARENA (Adoptive Resource Exchange of North America), claimed that 48 Native children were adopted in 1972.

We can infer that approximately 12,486 children were adopted between 1961 and 1976 out of the scope of the Indian Adoption Project.

Number of adoptions:

1964-1976   Native Adoptees - 11,157

1959-1967   Native Adoptees - 395

1961   Native Adoptees - 585

1965   Native Adoptees - 696

From Claire Palmiste, Indigenous Policy Journal Vol. XXII, No.1 (Summer 2011) 

NOTE:

As for the Indian Adoption projects, I needed a calculator.  If the Native American population was 2 million and if just one quarter of all children were removed before the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, then on-paper, 80,000+ children were removed from their families during the early to mid-1900s.  If the population of American Indians was 3 million, then over 100,000 babies were removed.   I hated this math…85 percent of children were removed by adoption in 16 states. That’s genocide. - Trace Hentz

EMAIL:  tracelara@pm.me 

PHONE: 413-772-6996