Thread by @b_lts_

Adoption and foster care emerge from the intentional control and destruction of Indigenous kinship through the forced removal of children from Indigenous communities, and their forced assimilation into European cultures.

🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6

This violence is carried out under the logic of “kill the Indian; save the man,” and the extraction of resources from the land in service of the prosperity of the invading settlers. 2/6

At the scale of the individual adopting family, Indigenous children were often used as free labor in addition to nuclear-family wish fulfillment. 3/6

Later, in 1958, The Child Welfare League of America would collaborate with the U.S. government on the continuation of forced assimilation via the “Indian Adoption Project.” 4/6

Family separation continues through the violence of immigration systems at the site of borders (borders themselves being a form of colonial violence.) 5/6

One of the most recent iterations of on-going colonial control against Indigenous communities is the current attack on the Indigenous Child Welfare Act. 6/7

#ProtectICWA @ProtectICWA #AdoptionAwarenessMonth
#NAAM #NAAM2022

While we condemn the family policing system in the form off adoption and foster care, we recognize that ICWA must be protected and encourage you to take action to #ProtectICWA. 7/7

3 Petitions:
* change.org/p/protect-the-…
* thepetitionsite.com/155/970/189/st…
* 👇🏼action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect…

Consider donating to @NABSHC, The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition

"The time for healing these inter-generational traumas is now!"

boardingschoolhealing.org/about-us/donat…
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Learn more about how family policing systems (so called child welfare systems) emerge from the control of Indigenous people as a "problem population" in "Lessons from Indian Country on the Origins of Child Welfare and the Reimagining of Alt. Futures" 9/7

https://twitter.com/b_lts_/status/1455574601589829640?s=20&t=q1O9n8x60JY_2-bWA5r75g

Another powerful quotation from "Lessons from Indian Country on the Origins of Child Welfare and the Reimagining of Alt. Futures":

https://twitter.com/b_lts_/status/1455574739875942410?s=20&t=q1O9n8x60JY_2-bWA5r75g

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I recognize that the coloniality of adoption extends far beyond Turtle Island, and follow theaters of war and military intervention over the last 100 years... 11/7

...and in our contemporary moment can be seen in the current extraction of children during war, after climate crisis events, and in geographies where imperial powers extract resources as a form of disaster capitalism 12/7

We'll post more about this idea later this week and next week when covering "Racial Capitalism" and “Commodification" 13/7