I thank you for one of the least biased pieces, although some facts were wrong. However, given the amount of smearing directed at Dusten Brown I can't help but expect that. I still feel very strongly that people in America as a whole are missing the point of this case. It's real impact. Everyone knows that this was not a usual adoption.
First of all, Dusten is a human being. He has rights as a human being. One of those is to be a father. It is a divine statement, if you believe in a Creator, that fathers provide half of the DNA. Therefore, it is equally his right to parent the child. Even after six months, the mother can object to an adoption and a father can not. Even if Dusten had made great efforts to establish parental rights the law of this land makes that of little consequence if he his not married to the mother.
Married fathers have substantially more rights to children than unwed fathers do. Which by all accounts he did make great effort to do. Is that not seeking the best way, by law, to establish his rights?
Dusten was in Army service to his country. Military families well know that a serviceman and woman's time and location is not their own. So making contact and offering other support is limited, especially during deployments to Iraq.
Another factor that is so grievously maligned in the media, by the Attorneys, by the Capobiancos, and by the Supreme Court of the United States is his Cherokee citizenship. It is not surprising that most Americans give little thought to .9% of the population. The Indigenous people here have been shelved by them for the most part. I want to say we are here, we have always been here, we did not disappear after the 1800's, and America needs to remember the 1900's. Nothing can be more violent or cruel to a parent than removing their child from them for no good reason.
Another factor that is so grievously maligned in the media, by the Attorneys, by the Capobiancos, and by the Supreme Court of the United States is his Cherokee citizenship. It is not surprising that most Americans give little thought to .9% of the population. The Indigenous people here have been shelved by them for the most part. I want to say we are here, we have always been here, we did not disappear after the 1800's, and America needs to remember the 1900's. Nothing can be more violent or cruel to a parent than removing their child from them for no good reason.
When a country wants to move on from an absolute 'Reign of Terror' that they have inflicted upon another group of people they make laws to protect those people from suffering at their hands again.
I have to hang my head and say that is not the case anymore. Maybe it was for a generation. Just one. I feel America no longer wants to stop themselves from repeating the genocide of the past. To say there is no person that is Indigenous in this country that has not lost a family member to a forced adoption is no exaggeration. Monday night Americans committed genocide again. The involvement of the law at almost every level just made it official. I cried, I cried more because I knew that Americans had failed themselves.
Of the articles of the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights, Articles 7 & 8 were violated most. I feel like I have never seen America work so hard to defeat itself in its goals of being a leader in Human Rights.
If you look on Twitter or Facebook it is very evident.
How do we move forward as a nation when we have made a grave error? First, make a reparation and protect the rights of all fathers, wed or unwed. Next, Military fathers, who shady adoption agencies target, need special protections. The Indian Child Welfare Act needs to have provisions added that pertain to infants and fathers especially. Lastly, the children need to come home, just like the ones held in the Temple of Doom. The children are our children. They need us just as much as we need them. They don't need to spend half if their adult lives roaming around lost and trying to connect to a part of who they are. For surely as people will wonder about who they are if they don't have that answer within themselves then how can they answer the world. It is hard enough to be American Indian no one needs another lost American Indian.
I know it's hard to stand up and tell most of the world, hey your wrong! But Jim Crow laws were wrong, British monarchy was wrong, and taking American Indian children IS wrong!
Best Regards,
A Mom
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
I have to hang my head and say that is not the case anymore. Maybe it was for a generation. Just one. I feel America no longer wants to stop themselves from repeating the genocide of the past. To say there is no person that is Indigenous in this country that has not lost a family member to a forced adoption is no exaggeration. Monday night Americans committed genocide again. The involvement of the law at almost every level just made it official. I cried, I cried more because I knew that Americans had failed themselves.
Of the articles of the United Nations Declaration of Indigenous Rights, Articles 7 & 8 were violated most. I feel like I have never seen America work so hard to defeat itself in its goals of being a leader in Human Rights.
If you look on Twitter or Facebook it is very evident.
How do we move forward as a nation when we have made a grave error? First, make a reparation and protect the rights of all fathers, wed or unwed. Next, Military fathers, who shady adoption agencies target, need special protections. The Indian Child Welfare Act needs to have provisions added that pertain to infants and fathers especially. Lastly, the children need to come home, just like the ones held in the Temple of Doom. The children are our children. They need us just as much as we need them. They don't need to spend half if their adult lives roaming around lost and trying to connect to a part of who they are. For surely as people will wonder about who they are if they don't have that answer within themselves then how can they answer the world. It is hard enough to be American Indian no one needs another lost American Indian.
I know it's hard to stand up and tell most of the world, hey your wrong! But Jim Crow laws were wrong, British monarchy was wrong, and taking American Indian children IS wrong!
Best Regards,
A Mom
Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma
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