![]() ![]() It takes the author's own history with adoption as a point of departure for exploring both the affective and narrative problems that arise when a child is adopted out, claiming that this process is fundamentally queer. This article argues that federal policies of extra-tribal adoption have constrained how adoptees are able to narrate the possibilities of relating with and returning to indigenous communities. ![]() ![]() However, little critical attention has been paid to those who were adopted out, and the ways in which those children and subsequent generations negotiate essential questions of belonging, community, and return. In the United States, extra-tribal adoption policies have typically been studied in relation to the enactment and enduring viability of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, which aims to prevent indigenous children from being removed from their communities. ![]()
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