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Author:   Margaret D. Jacobs
Publisher:   University of Nebraska Press
Imprint:   University of Nebraska Press
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9781496235435

ISBN 10:   1496235436
Pages:   402
Publication Date:   01 August 2023
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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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      

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Illuminating. . . . Jacobs's history is essential and timely reading. -Beth H. Piatote, Journal of American History This is a moving, significant book. Justice, Jacobs explains, will come only when nonindigenous people acknowledge the damage done. A Generation Removed makes a major contribution toward bringing the story to light. It remains for the rest of us to read and teach it. -Sherry Smith, Western Historical Quarterly [Jacobs] effectively elucidates the complicated policies surrounding the Indigenous child welfare crisis in a mesmerizing narrative that highlights how it's not just an 'American Indian story . . . but a profoundly American one.' -Elise Boxer, South Dakota History A Generation Removed is an important book that effectively researches and narrates a difficult and upsetting topic that has been all but ignored by mainstream American society for far too long. -Akim Reinhardt, Nebraska History A Generation Removed is a powerful eye opener, covering a piece of history we push under the carpet at our own peril. -Alan Porter, Saskatchewan History A solid account that calls for a full historical reckoning of this devastating chapter in the treatment of Native Americans. -Kirkus 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 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 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 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

"“Illuminating. . . . Jacobs’s history is essential and timely reading.”—Beth H. Piatote, Journal of American History   ""This is a moving, significant book. Justice, Jacobs explains, will come only when nonindigenous people acknowledge the damage done. A Generation Removed makes a major contribution toward bringing the story to light. It remains for the rest of us to read and teach it.""—Sherry Smith, Western Historical Quarterly “[Jacobs] effectively elucidates the complicated policies surrounding the Indigenous child welfare crisis in a mesmerizing narrative that highlights how it’s not just an ‘American Indian story . . . but a profoundly American one.’”—Elise Boxer, South Dakota History   ""A Generation Removed is an important book that effectively researches and narrates a difficult and upsetting topic that has been all but ignored by mainstream American society for far too long.""—Akim Reinhardt, Nebraska History ""A Generation Removed is a powerful eye opener, covering a piece of history we push under the carpet at our own peril.""—Alan Porter, Saskatchewan History ""A solid account that calls for ""a full historical reckoning"" of this devastating chapter in the treatment of Native Americans.""—Kirkus “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 “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 “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"

"“Illuminating. . . . Jacobs’s history is essential and timely reading.”—Beth H. Piatote, Journal of American History   ""This is a moving, significant book. Justice, Jacobs explains, will come only when nonindigenous people acknowledge the damage done. A Generation Removed makes a major contribution toward bringing the story to light. It remains for the rest of us to read and teach it.""—Sherry Smith, Western Historical Quarterly “[Jacobs] effectively elucidates the complicated policies surrounding the Indigenous child welfare crisis in a mesmerizing narrative that highlights how it’s not just an ‘American Indian story . . . but a profoundly American one.’”—Elise Boxer, South Dakota History   ""A Generation Removed is an important book that effectively researches and narrates a difficult and upsetting topic that has been all but ignored by mainstream American society for far too long.""—Akim Reinhardt, Nebraska History ""A Generation Removed is a powerful eye opener, covering a piece of history we push under the carpet at our own peril.""—Alan Porter, Saskatchewan History ""A solid account that calls for ""a full historical reckoning"" of this devastating chapter in the treatment of Native Americans.""—Kirkus “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 “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 “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 “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"

Author Information

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.

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