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The Story Of This Girl’s Adoption Has More Twists Than An Inordinately Twisty Twizzler

In the 1960s, about a third of all Native American children were taken from their homes under flimsy pretenses and placed in foster care. That was a horrifying problem, but the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act wasn’t a perfect fix. Listen to the story or read the transcript below.

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