How Foster Care Has Stripped Native American Children of Their Own Cultures

For Natives, foster care is a sensitive subject, and with good reason.

Removing Native children from their families and tribes of origin was once federal government policy in the United States. As the Indian Wars drew to a close in the late 1800s, punctuated by massacres and the establishment of the prisoner-of-war camps that would become known as reservations, the assimilation era began.

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