“So they turned to this policy of trying to close down the boarding
schools and they turned toward a policy of trying to turn over the
education and care of Indian children to the states,” says Jacobs.
Jacobs says a close examination of the records shows that 25 percent to
35 percent of Indian children were removed from their families.
Jacobs notes that A Generation Removed is also about Canada and
Australia. “I think that it’s important to show that this is going on
globally, at the same time in three different places, and that the same
practices and policies are being used against indigenous families in all
three places. The international part of my work is important to
convince people that this is really a serious issue of human rights
violations against indigenous families.”
Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2014/11/21/stealing-children-look-indigenous-child-removal-policies-157884
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