Native American families have endured generations of systematic child removal, but the grief, loss and trauma that birth mothers still experience have been largely overlooked.
Chris Stearns has two distinct memories from his childhood in the late 1960s. The first is somewhat hazy: a crowded New York City picnic for white families who had adopted native American boys and girls, somewhere at a hilly park.
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On Tuesday, February 28, at 6 p.m., a screening of “Blood Memory: A Story Of Removal and Return” will be hosted in Science Laboratory Center 120 on Winona State’s campus.