Dawnland Documentary Shows How the U.S. Government Took Indigenous Children From Their Homes — and Placed Them With White Families

“Dawn Adams was only a child when her mother’s parental rights were terminated by the U.S. government; two years later, her adoption process began. Then, at age 15, Adams, a child of the Wabanaki community in Maine, was taken from her home and placed in foster care. Like other Indigenous children throughout the U.S., Adams, who was named Neptune prior to her adoption, was led to believe that her people didn’t want her and was placed with a white family to live out the remainder of her childhood.

The Maine resident is just one of the many Indigenous people profiled in the new documentary film Dawnland, which puts a spotlight on the U.S. government's history of systematically taking Native American children from their homes and placing them with white families.”

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