As an Cherokee woman I never came to the Baby Veronica case assuming that my government, the Cherokee Nation, was right. Despite the often wrong assumption of the general public.
In fact, I thought they were probably wrong because like many people I don't agree with government on a range of things. It is, however, one of those I-can-only-talk-bad-about-my-family kind of relationships. Outsiders often hold the same contempt as I imagine many Americans felt when Putin criticized the US.
At first, just reading mainstream media I felt bad for the Capobiancos. They didn't understand the history between the USA and us Cherokee, like so many many people I encounter. They did appear to love Veronica. I couldn't help but wonder why they put her in the spotlight and didn't appear to talk with her father at all.
Then I looked at the court rulings and papers. I saw where, unlike the blatant media lie of oh-he-just-popped-up-2-years-after-she-was-born, Dusten had fought for custody of his baby since she was FOUR months old. The previous months before she was born where extreme family stress-had to be. Soldier serving and really that small word doesn't cover what all that entails.
Military families and loved ones have an absentee member. They are ghost like and miss family togetherness at the drop of a hat. I know. I have seen spouses, partners, & loved ones cope and not cope at all. Blame the soldier and despise him for his service or gut it out so bravely along with him.
So this mother and father where dealing with the stress of service. It matters little how or why they fought because military service is the trump card, it just is. Honestly, with all the hearsay that is the only thing anyone can discern with out doubt. Not you, me, judge, nor Capobiancos will ever know the totality of all their exchanges. I believe Dusten Brown, not because he is soldier or Cherokee, I believe him because he didn't get any money for his daughter, like the mother. He won't get $500 a month if the Capobiancos use Veronica's status as AI to claim her for tax write offs and money from the state-which is how her adoption appears in paperwork as Special Needs- plus fame and money fundraised. All he gets is the chance to raise his daughter himself in a fit and loving home.
I do find it very despicable indeed for the adoption agency and the Capobiancos to meddle with an already tense family situation. It isn't hard to imagine a working woman seduced by lies and manipulated to ignore the father and his family. I can just as easily imagine a man pushed to the limit of service where he makes bad personal choices. Either way, the attorneys & adoptive parents with baby hungry motives are not entering into this situation with anything but nefarious motive and their acts prove that true.
For those reasons alone every possible care to follow the laws set forth should be carefully minded. What did I find? The paperwork was so near fraudulent that it astounds me that these people are begging for a national spotlight on talk shows and news shows. I guess they had little to worry about, because none of those shows did anything but promote hatred toward my people and other American Indians in general! They didn't even speak with them, but with contempt and racism. Definitely not with the respect a Nation such as ours rightly deserved. It was eye-opening for me so naïveté to think the American public had surely come further than the days when I was born I suppose.
The public relations woman, Jessica Munday, they hired and her cronies coated a thick layer of colonial greed laced hate speech in every sentence. American media outlets couldn't suck enough of it up like hungry monsters to witches tit. Doctor Phil acted more than a school yard bully on his show. I'm surprised he didn't dress up like he was going to lead massacre of us all with his racist speeches. Like the coliseum in Rome, the American Neros roared for our blood & babies.
I think I spent a solid week in shock! Then it turned to anger and finally determination. I am not alone.
I had always looked kindly on the Supreme Court of the United States. After all, those justices where the only ones that stood up against the removal of my ancestors from their homeland. It still brings me pain to think of them singing Gospel hymns in Cherokee as they wound along harassed and dying to come to Oklahoma.
Yet, this court is NOT the one I look on fondly. It is one dominated by money and it's own set of adoption corrupters in its ranks. I would go so far as to say it is possibly the MOST repugnant court in our history. Just look at the rulings on Citizenship United, The Voting Rights Act, and Baby Veronica. The majority justices even start out with percentages of genocidal blood quanta like vampires draining us of our citizenship.
Among the many awful choices I saw was some of the first set by the Capobiancos to not return the baby to its family when they learned that it was being contested. Adoption is not so people get babies or children, it is so children get a family. What goodness is there in taking a baby from a FIT parent? None, none at all.
So, they got her by bad paperwork and kept her for two years from a man who knows sacrifice far beyond what they can fathom. Ripping to shreds a law, Indian Child Welfare Act, that was hard & bitterly won by stolen children, kids abused by Non-Indians-sometimes to their death, and blood of protestors. ICWA has little been followed, only look to South Dakota to see that kids where cycled for the state to get federal dollars 100 million a year. ICWA was all we had and they finished it off drooling for more babies. The happiness of a natural father & daughter was short after the unethical adoption train finished it's tour.
Then they brought their pack of wolves, some dressed as Christian sheep and some as Native Americans, hungry to the gates of Tahlequah and took her away.
To any truly good person, contempt is all they deserve and it is all I will give them.
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