In the late 1950s, the federal government established a program called the "Indian Adoption Project.” Throughout the nearly decade-long initiative, hundreds of native children were removed from their communities and placed with white families. The children were called “lost birds.” Lena Welker, now 66, was one of them.
West Virginia State University graduate students Leeshia Lee and Angelica Willis have been selected as fellows for West Virginia Public Broadcasting’s Inside Appalachia Folkways Project.
A longtime newspaperman, broadcaster and a former communications director for Gov. Jim Justice has been named interim executive director of West Virginia Public Broadcasting.