Lexington Books
Pages: 380
Trim: 6½ x 9¾
978-0-7391-2492-5 • Hardback • February 2008 • $147.00 • (£113.00)
978-0-7391-2493-2 • Paperback • February 2008 • $60.99 • (£47.00)
978-1-4616-3386-0 • eBook • February 2008 • $57.50 • (£44.00)
Rita James Simon is a professor at the School of Public Affairs at American University. Sarah Hernandez is a scholarship coordinator for the American Indian College Fund.
Part 1 Part I: History and Analysis of Native American Adoptees into White and Black Families
Part 2 Part II: Native American Adoptees Describe Their Experiences: Introduction
Part 3 Part III: Interviews
Chapter 4 1 Diane Ames
Chapter 5 2 Andrea
Chapter 6 3 Leslee Caballero
Chapter 7 4 Veronica Rose Dahmen
Chapter 8 5 Denise Engstrom
Chapter 9 6 Joyce Gonzalez
Chapter 10 7 Shana Greenberg
Chapter 11 8 Rosalind Hussong
Chapter 12 9 Jordan Kennedy
Chapter 13 10 RoSean Kent
Chapter 14 11 Star Nayea
Chapter 15 12 Tamara Watchman
Chapter 16 13 Jean Wells
Chapter 17 14 Paul DeMain
Chapter 18 15 David Houghton
Chapter 19 16 Dennis Jones
Chapter 20 17 Paul LaRoche
Chapter 21 18 Nicholas Leech-Crier
Chapter 22 19 Jonathan Old Horse
Chapter 23 20 Ted Smith
Part 24 Part IV: Summary and Concluding Comments
Transcribed interviews allow the adoptees to powerfully and poignantly express the impact of their experiences, thus challenging readers to make their own meaning....The book is important because it tackles an ignored subject....Recommended. Two-star review.
— Choice Reviews, March 2009
Not since David Fanshel's Far from the Reservation has a study so thoroughly examined the effects of transracial adoption on Native American people. This study fills an important gap in the history of the transracial adoption of Native American children. It portrays, in wonderful detail, the struggles of twenty Native Americans between the ages of twenty-five and fifty-nine who were transracially adopted as children into non-Native American families (sixteen into white families). It illustrates the 'highs' and 'lows' of their experiences and concludes by candidly addressing the ambivalence felt by these individuals to transracial adoption.
— Howard Altstein, School of Social Work, University of Maryland