Adoption of Native Children
Timeline of the Indian Child Welfare Practices
- 1492-1776 Colonial Years: Children are taken from their families to be put in orphanages, asylums, etc.
- 1776-1830 Removal Period: The reactions to the Colonial Years started the Foster Care Movement
- 1831-1880 Reservation and Treaties Period
- 1880-1930 Allotment Era: Children moved from family to family
- 1880-1930 Children are taken from their families and put in boarding schools where they are beaten for speaking in their native languages, etc.
- 1930-1950 Indian Reorganization Act Era: BIA takes control of the reservations, children are still being taken away from their families, tougher adoption laws caused illegal interracial adoptions of native children
- 1950 � 1970 Native American Termination Era: the government tried to force native families off of the reservations and into the cities, they also scared many parents to give up their children, the child abuse protection act was passed in 1974
- 1970 to present Self-Determination Era: native women were sterilized by force so that they could not have children by the government. Indian Child Welfare Act drafts & hearings � 1972 � 1976; passed in 1978
