FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE : Two Worlds hits Amazon, Kobo
December 2017
For Immediate Release
GREENFIELD, MASS- Tragic, true, heartbreaking,
astonishing... those words have been used to describe the anthology Two Worlds,
the first book to expose in first-person detail the adoption practices that
have been going on for years under the guise of caring for destitute Indigenous
children in North America.
The new updated Second Edition of
TWO WORLDS (Vol. 1), with narratives from Native American and First Nations
adoptees, covers the history of Indian child removals in North America, the
adoption projects, their impact on Indian Country, the 60s Scoop in Canada and
how it impacts the adoptee and their families.
"This book changed history," say editor Trace Hentz. "There is no doubt in my mind the adoption projects were buried and hidden... we adoptees are the living proof."
The Lost Children Book Series
includes: Two Worlds, Called Home: The Roadmap, Stolen Generations, and In The
Veins: Poetry. The book series is an important contribution to American Indian
history.
Trace Hentz (formerly DeMeyer)
located other Native adult survivors of adoption and asked them to write a narrative
for the first anthology. The adoptees share their unique experience of living
in Two Worlds, surviving assimilation via adoption, opening sealed adoption
records, and in most cases, a reunion with their tribal relatives. Indigenous
identity and historical trauma takes on a whole new meaning in this adoption
book series.
Since 2004, award winning journalist
Hentz was writing her historical biography “One Small Sacrifice: A Memoir.” She
was contacted by many adoptees after stories were published about her work.
More adoptees were found after “One Small Sacrifice” had its own Facebook page
and the American Indian Adoptees blog started in 2009. In 2011, Trace was
introduced to Patricia Busbee and asked her to co-edit the first edition of Two
Worlds.
As Hentz writes in the Preface,
"The only way we change history is to write it ourselves." This book
is a must read for all that want the truth, since very little is known or
published on this history.
"I was asked to update this
book by one adoptee contributor and I added a new narrative by Levi Eagle
Feather, and more information on the 60s Scoop. Please tell your friends and
other adoptees," Trace Hentz says. "One day in America, we Lost
Children will have our day in court."
Patricia Busbee is writing a new
chapter on her adoptee reunion in the anthology CALLED HOME in 2018.
- Series: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects
- Paperback: 332 pages
- Publisher: Blue Hand Books; Second edition (December 11, 2017)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0692372105
- ISBN-13: 978-0692372104
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| Two Worlds: Second Edition (Vol. 1) |
| Trace L Hentz |
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