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Arizona accused of abuses in prisons
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My Lakota nephew is incarcerated in the Eyman Prison complex in Florence, AZ and he is an adoptee. He has written many times about the atrocity of living in there. He does not get three meals daily and he's shackled when he goes to the cage for recreation which has no fresh air or sun. His status as a prisoner has been deemed inhumane by Amnesty International in a recent report.
Why are so many minorities incarcerated? Do we see a pattern here? How many adoptees are incarcerated? Those statistics are not available to me. I have asked.
Jess has asked for prayers... so I ask you, my friends, to keep good thoughts until he can be freed. Mitakuye oyasin all my relatives!
Google Earth: http://youtu.be/Q5AUNraAdBY
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence,_Arizona
Profits for Private Prisons: http://youtu.be/QXH3DlW3vMs
Labels: Jesse Neubert
One day the world will wake up
Lost Daughters: On Being Generic Ethnic
It is important for all adoptees to know their ancestry, VERY important. Please read this great post on Lost Daughters (click on title) by an Illinois adoptee.
Sadly, the adoption world continues to ignore adoptees in this regard, and fails to see the importance of our medical history which is clearly so necessary and essential to every human being - yet sealed adoption records leaves us adoptees out in the cold and in the dark.
Some day, one day soon, the world will wake up. I mean it. One day the world will see adoption for what it truly is - a farce, ridiculous, barbaric and demeaning for the adoptee.
I wait for that day.
Labels: adoption file access, billion dollar adoption industry, Illinois adoptee, Trace A. DeMeyer
Deportation of adoptees? Yup!
Citizen of no land: The story of Kairi Shepherd
by Danish Raza May 25, 2012 First Post:India
#Adoption #India #Kairi Shepherd #OnOurMind #United States
Kairi Shepherd, a 30 year-old Indian-origin adoptee is staring at the prospect of deportation from United States to India and says being sent back to India would end her life as she knows it.
"The deportation order which may force me to part from my physicians, family, and friends here, could be a death sentence to me," said Shepherd, who suffers from multiple sclerosis.
Hers is a strange and tragic tale that reveals how children adopted across borders often fall through the cracks of domestic law.
Utah native Erlene Shepherd adopted a three-month-old Kairi from a Kolkata orphanage. Kairi was one of the 11 children the single mother adopted from across the globe. Erlene died when Kairi was eight.
Kairi Shepherd. File image. Image courtesy Anjali Pawar/ Sakhi
When Kairi was arrested and convicted of felony check forgery – a crime she committed to feed her drug habit – a US court and Kairi discovered that she was not a US citizen. The court then upheld the right of the US government to deport Kairi to India.
How did Kairi fall through the cracks?
To claim Kairi's citizenship, Erlene had to submit a form with the US authorities before her adopted daughter turned 21 years old. But Erlene died without doing so, making Kairi, a nobody's child. If parents who are technically granted legal guardianship by the sending country, don't re-adopt their children after their arrival in the US, then their children are not US citizens.
She also does not benefit from the 2000 Child Citizenship Act, which represented a significant step forward and provided automatic citizenship for adoptees, because it does not retroactively include adult adoptees.
"The Child Citizenship Act failed to include all adoptees upon its passage in 2000 and so brought into question adoption's most fundamental claim, a forever loving home. Adoptee vulnerability to removal and undocumented status violates an adopted person's rights as outlined in the Hague Convention on Inter-country adoption to which the U.S. is a signatory and the UNCRC, which sending countries like India have ratified," said Jennifer Kwon Dobbs, community adviser with AdopSource, a resource group for adoptees in the US.
Dobbs has tracked 40 cases of adult adoptees who have been deported to their countries of origin.
In 2008, Jennifer Haynes was deported from the US to India in a similar manner. Adopted by an American couple, she was sexually abused by her foster father, and spent years being shipped from one foster parent to another.
Charged in a case of drug possession, she was sent back at the age of 32. Her children- eight and nine years old- are growing up in the US without mother.
"I am away from them for more than four years now and I am not sure if I will ever see them again. What kind of law is this?" said Haynes.
The Central Adoption Resource Authority (CARA), central government body which sanctions inter-country adoption says that it cannot be held responsible because it was non existent when Haynes and Shepherd were adopted. CARA was formed in 1990.
"Currently we issue conformity certificates in case of every inter-country adoption to facilitate immediate citizenship of the adopted child," said Anu J Singh, director, CARA, adding that the Authority has written to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) and the US Embassy for details of the Kairi Shepherd's case.
The MEA has been maintaining that it is looking at ways to provide legal assistance to Kairi to challenge the US order.
International Mission of Hope, the Kolkata orphanage which put Kairi in adoption, shut shop ten years ago and Kairi's last hope is a favorable order from the US Supreme Court.
The insanity of adoption continues - a child doesn't choose to be adopted, or asked to be placed in another country...and yet Americans who adopt didn't file all the proper and necessary paperwork for their acquisition, putting their "adoptee" at risk... It begs the question: why? Trace
Labels: adoptees finding the truth, billion dollar adoption industry, Deporting adoptees, Intercountry adoptees, Split Feathers, Trace A. DeMeyer
Coming out from one's ignorance is considered radical?
http://larahentz.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/2949/
This is my other blog... about becoming Lara.... check it out - click BLOG on top bar.... read the re-blog "Coming out from one's ignorance..."
Thanks for recent comments, everyone. Please know that if you sign in as "anonymous" you may not get published on this blog....
ICWA: By The Numbers #NDN #Adoption
by Kate Fort | May 18, 2012
This information is from a presentation I gave May 18th at the Minnesota CLE.
In 2011 there were 199 ICWA cases (249 in the allstate-cs Westlaw database using "Indian Child Welfare Act" search. 50 were not ICWA cases). Of those 122 (61%) were California notice or inquiry cases. This is less than the last time we checked in 2007 (308 cases). The state continues to remand nearly 50% of all the notice cases (58 remanded, 48%). The only state even close to California on notice cases is Michigan, with 8 last year, and 5 remanded.
Of the family lore cases, there was only one additional case in 2011 from the same lower court as the others and none in 2012.
Once we take out the California notice cases, active efforts cases are the next most litigated cases (24). A large number of those are out of Alaska, and even ones that aren't out of Alaska are using Alaska cases to define active efforts.
Otherwise, there were 8, transfer cases, 7 QEW cases, 7 notice and inquiry cases (non-CA and MI), 6 burden of proof cases, 5 placement preferences, 5 jurisdiction cases, 1 due process, 1 standing case. There were a number of cases that were ICWA cases, but didn't really use or discuss ICWA in the final decision, which was strange. In this paragraph, some cases were counted twice, because active efforts and burden of proof, for example, are usually discussed in the same case. We're still deciding how best to classify those.
So far in 2012, there have been 71 cases. 33 (46%) of those were California notice and inquiry cases, and 48% (16) were remanded. There were 5 Michigan notice cases. Nationwide, there were only 2.
Our current assumption is that as notice cases fall in numbers, other cases will rise–this is based on the hopeful idea that a decrease in notice cases means courts might actually be doing notice properly. Once notice is done properly and ICWA applies and/or the tribe is involved, it seems logical that other areas (specifically transfer, active efforts, and placement preferences) of ICWA will be litigated more often.
In 2012 there were 8 active efforts, 7 placement preferences, 6 transfer, 2 other notice and inquiry, and 1 QEW case.
2012 has had two disturbing private adoption cases as well. See our coverage of those here and here.
Finally, we've also been keeping track of all transfer cases since the passage of the law. So far our spreadsheet has 123 cases total. 37 (30%) of those have either transferred cases to tribal court or reversed a denial of transfer and ordered a hearing on the issue (7). 60 cases have affirmed an initial denial of transfer. 21 cases have reversed an initial transfer. Only 19 cases have reversed a denial of transfer. 3 did not consider the issue of transfer.
When a GAL is involved in a transfer case (60 of all transfer cases), 40 times the GAL opposed transfer, 3 times the GAL supported transfer and in 17 cases it was impossible to determine the GAL's position. When the GAL opposes transfer, the court agrees 80% of the time (32 cases). There are only 8 cases where the GAL's position against transfer is known when the court disagrees and transfers.
Other areas we're still looking at in the transfer cases is the different results from state appellate courts versus state supreme courts. This might change the way we ultimately count an outcome, but in this post each decision is counted individually, even if it the case was appealed up.
Labels: American Indian Adoptees, Kate Fort, Split Feathers, Trace A. DeMeyer, violations of ICWA
FREE #Adoption ReunionRegistry relaunched!
Search Quest America announces the relaunch of ReunionRegistry.org, a Free Resource for Adoptees and Birth Family Members Separated by Adoption
Pamela Combs-Wickel
and Vicki Caton Buckle Reunited
Cape Coral, Florida (PRWEB) May 17, 2012
Search Quest America is a licensed investigative agency based in Cape Coral, Florida which specializes in one of the fasted growing forms of skip tracing – family search. Since the company was founded in 2008, over 2,000 families have been reunited!
CEO Susan Friel-Williams states, "We recognize our clients' need to reconnect with missing family and are here to help! Children can be separated from family members through adoption, growing up in the foster care system, or because their parents divorced and they lost touch with a mother or father. Our research professionals understand that search and reunion is a journey of self discovery for our clients. Every one of our research professionals has personal ties to adoption issues."
ReunionRegistry.org, a free resource for adoptees, birth parents and siblings separated by adoption, has been relaunched. We'd like to thank our Internet design team at Search Quest America for re-designing and releasing our newest version.
We also have a great reunion success to share with you from Pamela Combs Wickel in Washington, who wrote and shared her story: "On January 6, 2012 I found my answers. An investigator left me a message asking for my help in a case she was working on. I can still remember calling Susan at Search Quest America back. I thought my heart was going to pound out of my chest. Could it be me someone is looking for? Well it was and I am so thankful to be found!"
"That evening I spoke to my birth mom, Vicki Caton Buckles for the first time. It was as special as I thought it would be. And my biggest question of all was answered. Yes, she loves me! On April 22, 2012 we met for the first time. It was absolutely one of the highlights of my life. She is as loving, caring, happy, kind, awesome and beautiful inside and out as I had imagined her in my mind to be. I feel whole and complete and I am so grateful to Susan at Search Quest America for that most incredible, life changing day. Thank you for finding me Susan - and Vicki, Thank you for looking. This is the beginning of an amazing future."
Register or visit today and see who might be searching for you.
Contact: Susan E. Friel-Williams
CEO, Search Quest America LLC
http://www.searchquestamerica.com
Labels: #Adoption, adoptees finding the truth, FREE ReunionRegistry relaunched, Mending the Hoop, reunion registry.org, Trace A. DeMeyer
Free Genealogy Database For Adoptees
By Elisa Black-Taylor (Greenville Genealogy Examiner)
Research for adoptees is very different from regular genealogy in that you're going in with very little information. You may only have your own date or birth and the town you were born in. Sometimes searching for a birth mother or child feels like looking for a needle in a haystack.
Today I want to tell you about a firm that has a very high success rate in reuniting families.
Research Etc., Inc. is a private investigation firm located in Scottsdale, Arizona. The business opened its doors in 1995 and is owned and operated by sisters Kristen Hamilton and Judy Andrews, along with their mother Ava Friddle.
Along with adoption cases, these ladies also handle other forms of private investigations. They're most famous for reuniting adoptee's and their birth mothers. Much of their fame can be credited to a book about many of their success stories. Back To The Beginning: Remarkable True Stories Of Adoption Services & Reunions was published in 2008 and offers insights on what it's like for a birth mother to be reunited with a child.
Research Etc., Inc can be reached by phone at 1-800-992-3571 or by email at RSearchEtc@aol.com.
The name of the free database for adoptees is Birthline Reunion Registry and is located at http://www.researchetcinc.com/birthline.html
If you're an adoptee and wish to post your information there's a one time fee of $10. The search option itself is free.
On it you'll find birth mothers and adoptees listed along with date of birth, hospital and an email address to contact.
Birthline Reunion Registry services not only the U.S. But also Australia, Canada, England, China, Germany, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, Russia, Scotland, South Africa and the U.K.
There are only a handful of states in the U.S. that have open or semi-open access to adoption records. Those states are Alabama, Alaska, Delaware, Kansas, Maine, New Hampshire, Oregon and Tennessee.
This means the information (most likely a birth certificate)is accessible to the person named on the document, meaning the birth parents. Once a child reaches age 18, they may also have the right to access the information through the Vital Statistics Office or other sources. Records are easier to obtain once the birth records are 50 years old.
They caution not to expect miracles and no one price fits all cases. Some cases are solved in a few hours while others may take a year or longer. The more information a client has at the time of a free consultation, the lower the cost will be.
The firm does state that some birth mother's are reluctant to name the birth father. Many birth mother's take that information to their grave. A birth mother may not always be pleased when first contact is approached. Research Etc., Inc. also offers services to arrange emails, phone calls or visits between mother and child. Some clients feel the need to make arrangements personally. The firm treats each case individually and does whatever the client wishes in handling a reunion.
There are probably many such databases online. I wanted to highlight one that's free and easy to use.
Many states are trying to change the law where more mothers and their children can search for each other more easily.
There are many adoptees who cannot afford to pay for a private investigator but if you can search a free database - then FREE is wonderful! Get busy! ... Trace
Labels: adoptee search for mother, billion dollar adoption industry, Birthline Adoption Registry, how to search, sealed adoption records, Trace A. DeMeyer
Michigan Supreme Court honors ICWA
Michigan SCT Adopts "Conditional Reversal" Rule for Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Notice Violations
An excerpt from Justice Cavanagh's unanimous opinion:
While it is impossible to articulate a precise rule that will encompass every possible factual situation, in light of the interests protected by ICWA, the potentially high costs of erroneously concluding that notice need not be sent, and the relatively low burden of erring in favor of requiring notice, we think the standard for triggering the notice requirement of 25 USC 1912(a) must be a cautionary one. Therefore, we hold first that sufficiently reliable information of virtually any criteria on which tribal membership might be based suffices to trigger the notice requirement. We hold also that a parent of an Indian child cannot waive the separate and independent ICWA rights of an Indian child's tribe and that the trial court must maintain a documentary record including, at minimum, (1) the original or a copy of each actual notice personally served or sent via registered mail pursuant to 25 USC 1912(a) and (2) the original or a legible copy of the return receipt or other proof of service showing delivery of the notice.1
Finally, we hold that the proper remedy for an ICWA-notice violation is to conditionally reverse the trial court and remand for resolution of the ICWA-notice issue.
Briefs are here and here.
HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY - this protects Indian children - so let's have all the other states do this and follow ICWA rules in every case! Trace
Labels: Michigan, Split Feathers, Supreme Court, violations of ICWA
Indian Identity - It's complicated in New England!
www.sjf.edu
By Trace L Hentz (Eastern Cherokee by blood)
Living in New England (yes, it's still called that after 400+ years), I have come to understand how Native Americans here evolved through some of the most troubling, extreme and dangerous circumstances --- yes, dangerous.
Many non-Indians here have deeply-embedded fears of Indians, because of stories passed down in families.
Many New Englanders are of the mindset Indians are of the past, not the present. We are no longer a threat like we were in colonial days.
Today Massachusetts has no great track record of dealing fairly or honestly with its tribes. One example, the Mashpee Wampanoag had their federal recognition delayed over 30 years.
There are many more Indian people here who are not in federally-recognized tribes and have no identity card to show other Indians or the demanding media.
This issue is affecting Senate-hopeful Elizabeth Warren (Democrat) who is running against Scott Brown (Republican). Elizabeth's ancestry is Cherokee. Her Cherokee ancestors might have been educated in New England, maybe at Harvard or Dartmouth. I don't know.
Since Elizabeth is not enrolled with the Cherokee, her lack of an identity card is a huge problem for the media and other Indians.
HEY! Indians in New England get it. She's one of us. We have our own stories passed down in our families, too.
Granted it's not easy to trace your ancestors from the late 1800s to secure that government-issued Indian Identity card. (My friend Russ calls his tribal ID, "My Holocaust Card.")
Why is Indian identity so complicated?
Long-standing racism by state officials on the East Coast who wanted us dead - and a backlog of over 250 recognition bids sitting in the Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Washington DC. Delays are notorious. Tribal Elders who started the petitions are often dying before they see their petition recognized.
In the 1800s, there was absolutely no benefit whatsoever if you were Indian. Saying you were could get you killed: After the Pequot War, hunting down the Pequot was common - there was a bounty on every Pequot - man, woman or child. Bring in dead Indians and you get paid. The media never covers this.
So back to identity... tell me, could you provide records to the exact day your immigrant ancestor arrived here on a boat? Yet Indians are supposed to prove they are Indian?
In this part of the world, Native people intermarried for survival. After the Indian Wars, Native woman married outside of their tribes since there were so few men left who had not been killed in war.
Their survival was not complicated, it was necessary.
Read the CNN coverage on INDIAN IDENTITY: http://inamerica.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/14/whos-a-native-american-its-complicated/
"It seems to me one of the ways of getting rid of the Indian question is just this of intermarriage, and the gradual fading out of the Indian blood; the whole quality and character of the aborigine disappears, they lose all of the traditions of the race; there is no longer any occasion to maintain the tribal relations, and there is then every reason why they shall go and take their place as white people do everywhere," said Anthony Higgins, a U.S. Senator from Delaware, in 1895 congressional testimony.
Labels: blood quantum, CNN, Elizabeth Warren, Indian Identity, Julia Good Fox, New England, percentage of Indian Blood, racial identification, Trace A. DeMeyer
Mother and Daughter Both Adoptees: Knowing you're Indian is not enough
A Mother's Day story: Mother and daughter both given up for adoption
By Mary Annette Pember (photos and story)
This year, for the first time in a long time, Mother's Day didn't bring with it the painful unknowns for Jeanne Winslow and Rachel Banks Kupcho of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Jeanne and her daughter Kupcho met for the second time last October, more than 35 years after Winslow gave her newborn up for adoption.
"The day I got the call was the day I knew my life had changed forever," says Winslow. That call on a cool October day carried the news that her daughter had found her and wanted to meet.
Their reunion was not a made-for-TV event filled with balloons and flowers. Winslow recalls that seeing her daughter for the first time in such a long time was quietly powerful, a bit like the first time she heard the drum and knew deep in her body that she was American Indian.
Like Kupcho, Winslow was put up for adoption as a newborn and raised by non-Indians.
Their story puts a quintessential Indian twist on the standard Mother's Day tale of maternal perfection, and shows the inexorable pull of blood and spirit that so many Native people describe when they speak of wanting to know their culture.
I first met Kupcho in Minneapolis back in 2008 while doing a story about the challenges faced by American Indian adoptees who want learn more about their cultures and their birth parents. At the time, she knew only that her birth mother was Ojibwe from Minnesota. Her adoptive family was supportive and understanding of her efforts. A bright, confident young woman, Kupcho is convinced that without the unconditional love of her adoptive parents she would not have been strong enough to pursue her passion and calling of working to support the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). While working with the National Indian Child Welfare Association, she met Sandy White Hawk, executive director of the First Nations Repatriation Institute in Minneapolis. White Hawk, an adoptee herself, founded the organization to advocate for Native adoptees in accordance with ICWA and to help unite adoptees with their birth families, cultures and tribes.
In October, they informed me that they had found Kupcho's birth mother, Winslow, a children's counselor living in Iowa.
Winslow and Kupcho, along with Kupcho's 18-month-old daughter Mika, quickly arranged a meeting. Kupcho recalls that Winslow seemed to be in quite a hurry to meet her. She soon found out why.
Winslow's birth mother (and Kupcho's grandmother), Audrey Banks, who Winslow had met 20 years earlier, was dying. Winslow immediately rushed everyone to her mother's bedside.
"There were four generations in that room meeting for the first time," Winslow recalls. "That was the first thing Kupcho and I did together. It was the greatest privilege and honor to be there with her. It was a very healing experience. This has all been about circles connecting. At first, it was just my circle but now I see that so many others are interconnected."
Kupcho didn't know it at the time, but she had previously connected with her grandmother—Audrey was well known and respected in the Minneapolis Native community for her work helping social service agencies maintain compliance with ICWA.
Like Kupcho, she earned a master's degree in social work in order to better serve Native children. "There has definitely been something bigger at work in my life; there has been a path I am meant to walk," Kupcho says of this coincidence.
In many ways, Audrey's experience as a young Ojibwe woman may have helped set the direction of that path.
Born on the Leech Lake reservation, Audrey was sent to the Pipestone Indian boarding school at age 9 and remained there for the remainder of her childhood. After moving to Minneapolis she gave birth to three boys and three girls.
According to her daughters, social workers from Catholic Charities showed up at her bedside after each birth, pressuring the single mother to give the girls up for adoption.
"She said that she felt coerced by the social workers that said that the girls would have better lives if they were raised by white people," recalls Bernadine Harroun, Audrey's second daughter. "I think that influenced her decision to go into social work and help keep Indian kids with Indian families."
Bernadine and her younger sister, Winslow were adopted by the same family and raised together. Bernadine initiated the search for Audrey and Winslow and was responsible for their first meeting in 1989. They learned that Audrey, all of her children and Kupcho all lived and grew up within 20 miles of each other.
"Most of the stories of Native adoptees finding their families are like miracles," White Hawk says. The distinguishing factor for Native adoptees, according to White Hawk is that the children were prayed for by generations of parents who knew hard times were coming. "Native people have that spiritual pull, like a spiritual umbilical cord that compels us to seek out our families," she says.
Many Native adoptees report that hearing the traditional drum often activates that spiritual pull. Indeed Winslow recalls the first time she heard the drum. "I heard it and I knew I was Indian. The drum goes to some place so deep," she recalls. (She didn't know it at the time, but her uncle, well-known activist Dennis Banks was one of the people at that drum. He was giving a presentation at Winslow's suburban high school about the happenings at Wounded Knee.)
Except for the strange longing awakened in her by the drum, Winslow says life in her adoptive suburban home was good. Ironically, because of this positive experience, she was able to make the difficult decision to relinquish her own daughter for adoption. Newly independent and sexually inexperienced, she found herself pregnant at age 19. "I knew that I couldn't give my daughter the chance she deserved unless I did something drastic," she recalls.
With the support of her adoptive family, Winslow put Kupcho up for adoption. "Leaving the hospital without her was the hardest thing I've ever done in my life," she says. Over time, however, she was at peace with her decision although birthdays, Christmas and Mother's Day were hard. "I never stopped wondering about her," says Winslow.
There was always a lingering, fear, too that Kupcho would be angry with her if and when they reconnected. She says, however, that her meetings with Kupcho and Mika have been smooth and joyous. She compares it to dancing in the circle for the first time with Audrey. "Somehow my feet knew what to do," Winslow recalls.
"I can't imagine the pain Winslow went through in making the brave choice to give me up for adoption. I give her tons of credit," says Kupcho, adding that Winslow needn't have feared she would be angry. "If anything her love gave me the wonderful life I have now. The home I was adopted into has afforded me the ability to do the work that I do."
Kupcho is starting a new job with a non-profit organization that licenses foster homes for Native children. Her main focus is creating permanent, supportive homes. Although her adoptive placement was loving and good, advocating for a child to be in a loving home is not specific enough.
"Being with family is ideal," Kupcho says. "Love is not always enough. Going to the occasional pow wow is not enough. We need to know about our traditions and culture. Even knowing you're Indian is not enough. With the experience of meeting my birth family, I understand this more fully. As a mother and as an adoptee I have a better sense of myself. I have a stronger, more confident gait. This is the only thing my adoptive parents haven't been able to give me."
Finding her birth mother, however, was not the whole key to Kupcho's search. "I needed to know where I came from and make that tribal connection. When visiting the reservation I am suddenly among family and I feel good," she says.
Both Kupcho and Winslow report that they are going forward with their new relationship without expectations and going with that process as it unfolds. Their first Mother's Day was one of quiet joy. "I'm a mother, now I have somebody," explains Winslow. "Plus it's great to be a grandma."
"Mother's Day is definitely more complicated now, but only in my mind. I'm taking it as it comes," says Kupcho, laughing.
Sandy White Hawk's message for Mother's Day and every day thereafter: "We need to encourage our birth mothers to forgive themselves and remember we wouldn't be here without them. We need to tell them that regardless of the kinds of lives we have had, we can have good lives from this day forward and for that we are grateful."
NOTE: This is an update to a 2010 story that was published on DailyYonder.com.
Read more: http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2012/05/14/daughters-given-up-for-adoption-seek-knowledge-about-their-culture-and-birth-mothers-112830#ixzz1urPQTkzG
Labels: #Adoption, #NDN, ICWA, Jeanne Winslow, Knowing your Indian isn't enough, Leech Lake, Mary Annette Pember, Minnesota, NICWA, Rachel Banks Kupcho, Split feathers syndrome
Stolen Makeni Children
Another example of Americans who adopt internationally to find out they were duped...This has happened before and sadly, it will happen again when children are $old to Americans... Trace
A court finds that the adoptees from Sierra Leone were in fact kidnapped.
Were Samuel Mosley and Adama K. stolen from their birth families in Makeni, Sierra Leone so that Americans could adopt them—and so that greedy middlemen masquerading as child welfare workers could get paid? That question was at the heart of the series published here last August, The Makeni Children, which investigated the torturously complex stories of 29 adoptions in 1998 from Sierra Leone to the United States. Birth families from Makeni had agitated for more than a dozen years, insisting that their children had been wrongfully taken. But the child welfare organization that had taken those children, HANCI (Help a Needy Child International), insisted that the families were lying—that in the midst of the brutal civil war, they had knowingly and willingly given their children away.
Read the story here: http://www.slate.com/articles/double_x/doublex/2012/05/sierra_leone_adoptees_were_found_to_be_kidnapped_.html
Labels: billion dollar adoption industry, International adoption, Makeni adoptees, unregulated adoption industry
Disturbing comments about you're adopted (Pinterest)
from Pinterest Humor! (sorry we can't locate the original post on Facebook)
The Comments on this thread express the attitude about adoption out there - I did not comment... Trace
P's brother is always joking w/ her that she is adopted! Too funny:-)
I have this with the laughing one with a Dallas Cowboys star...and the other a diff. team to funny..
You could put so many funny lines with this picture! Wish I was clever enough to come up with some! Love the picture though!
My sisters used to tell me this and I cry just like that baby! Lol
:( My son IS adopted and when he read this over my shoulder he asked, "What is wrong with being adopted." Personally not finding the slogan funny.
I used to say this to my sister all the time! We also used to tell her all my mom could afford to buy her for presents were the dogs toys based on ONE picture of her chewing on a dog toy corn cob (that was brand new) Now we are best friends. Funny how emotional torture brings you close! haha
LMAO!!!! This is too funny!!!
I get you, D. My twins were adopted, too. Folks just don't get how hurtful this can be. Not whining, just saying...
hahaha! this is hilarious!
Not about adoption at all really. It's about the way siblings look for each other's hot spots. And yeah, that's pretty funny.
you would like this @E haha
It is actually hurtful. I hgave my child up for adoption. It's equivilent to being mentally handicapped and being called retarded.
I completely agree with @R. Too true! I used to push my siblings buttons when we were growing up, and plenty vice versa. It's just part of growing up and I wouldn't change a thing. :)
I used to say to my brother he was found in a basket on the street jajajaja... I think it´s funny because they look like twins jijijijiji...
But it IS about adoption. It plays on the idea that adoption is second best, or unwanted. The child in the picture is crying because no one wants to be adopted. It really is offensive to adopted people or people who adopt. Just saying...
Do not like this. period.
OMG It's a JOKE....I guess some of you would be upset if you went to a comedy show...and listened to how they slash everything and everybody...DON'T make it more then it is...And this picture has been around forever with everything from football teams to this on it and everything in between....
No Kidding, A...is that the point? have you been through an adoption? Just saying.
I have 5 children of my own NOT ADOPTED....but have had several family members ADOPT including my siblings...and yes thats the point...it's a JOKE...nothing MORE nothing less...
hahahahahha!!!! i honestly don't think this is ANYTHING to do w/ adoption. My baby sister who is my most FAVORITE person in the world is adopted. But i remember when my little brother and i were younger we would say this to each other ALL the time!! and we totally made each other cry. hahaha love this pic! people. no one means any harm.
I'm with A., I called my co-worker special today, and I really meant he is special. But another co-worker said I was unenlightened. I wasn't saying he was special needs, I was saying he is a one of a kind. And when can we get mad at all the PC people for trying to make everyone feel bad all the time. Stop it.
exactly...... my boys do it to each other all the time...it's a joke not meant to hurt....and I know when Hansol posted it...that is not what he intended....
That is hilarious
For B, A and J, they had J convinced he was adopted.. crazy kids!!
Great Laugh!
i have ths with B laughing and the A crying. too funny!
That's too funny
hahaha verrry funny
So funny
Love it! Makes me giggle.
My daughter is adopted, I don't dig it and truly I'm very thick skinned. Poor taste
I too look for the humor in most things, and I did say that I loved the picture as it has so many funny possibilities. I agree that it truly meant no harm. However, I'm leaning with Daisy and Heather here. Maybe a more appropriate caption. Still..., love your photos Hansol!
Awww....Cute!
I guess I'm just asking folks to consider that, even when said with good intentions, words can hurt. Yes, this picture is adorable: it is the comment that can cut like a knife to someone struggling with their origins. Kindness is the best gift we can give one another.
OMG! This is funny
siblings. joke. adults, stop overreacting. it's FUNNY
i think this is funny, i would always tell my sister she was adopted. we still joke about it 15 years later and we're best friends now.
A few people here have posted that they have adopted friends, nieces, etc. and they still find it funny. I can't help but notice that no one who is adopted or has an adopted child finds it funny. I know that no one means to be mean, and it is just a different perspective for those who are not adopted themselves, but trust me, it is totally offensive to an adopted person.
So not funny... I am at a loss for words but this is what a century of adoption propaganda creates.... Trace
Labels: adopted, attitudes about adoption, ignorance, Trace L Hentz
How insane are we? Let's look at UTAH!
It is rare I am this pissed off! (Watch out anyone in my vicinity)
Utah apparently is (or was) coaching pregnant moms to NOT notify the father of the child so the adoption agency (predators) could complete the sale-transaction of the soon-to-be-born-infant.
Why am I fuming at this? My own birthmother didn't want to meet me or god forbid, have anyone find out about me BUT when I found my dad, he asked "how soon can you get here?" I got to meet him three weeks later in Illinois and EARL was indeed my DAD!! (Sometimes men have more compassion than women - and in my own experience, my dad truly loved me, even though he didn't raise me.)
There always seems to be a long waiting lists of adopters, right? Has anyone considered how or why we are becoming so infertile?
When did we descend into this madness of selling babies?
Don't you get it? This is commodification of human life. This is the low point for humanity.
The Utah Supreme Court had ruled earlier that deception was part of the adoption process in Utah. Utah has the most conservative adoption laws in the U.S. that favor the birth mother and apparently prefer it that way – much less hassle getting the baby-daddy involved, right?
How insane are we? Why do I say insane? MONEY! I am yelling in CAPS because I see how insane we are as humans and how blind we are as to what is happening to babies. BABIES!!
Number ONE: Babies do not choose to be adopted. (I didn't)
Number TWO: No one would ever choose to be abandoned or orphaned! (I didn't)
The fact is: babies are so incredibly confused, demoralized and terrified when their mom disappears (within 45 minutes), it affects us for the rest of our lives. OUR ENTIRE LIFE!
I know this from experience and my memoir is about this... and some people in UTAH are completely insane...
"After a Colorado father went through four years of legal battles to get custody of his daughter - who was put up for adoption without his consent - 9NEWS uncovered evidence of a system in Utah where agencies are coaching mothers to deceive fathers out of their parental rights.
Utah adoption lawyer Wes Hutchins says he has audio recordings as proof. The way some adoption agencies handle birth mothers Hutchins claims "is an invitation for birth mothers to lie, cheat and defraud birth fathers into thinking they don't have anything to worry about."
"The idea that the birth mother can travel from any state to Utah and be in Utah for two or three days and then give birth to a child and then leave the state with the sole purpose of cutting off the rights of the biological father has to stop," Hutchins said.
http://www.9news.com/moms/article/267332/499/Recordings-of-adoption-agencies-coaching-moms
Resignation Letter From the President of The Utah Adoption Council
http://www.adoptivefamiliescircle.com/groups/topic/Resignation_Letter_From_the_President_of_The_Utah_Adoption_Council/#reply-18189
When I am this pissed, I usually tear apart a room in my house and clean... Looks to me like the living room needs work...
(click on comments [in blue below this post] and please let me know what you think)
Labels: adoptee trauma, billion dollar adoption industry, How insane are we, Utah, Utah father seeks custody
Cash incentives for adopters?
That headline "CASH INCENTIVES FOR ADOPTERS" is the kind that keeps me up late. An adoptee friend sent a story from Louisiana about cash incentives for people to adopt. (Read here: http://www.dcfs.louisiana.gov/index.cfm?md=newsroom&tmp=detail&articleID=380)
Yes, these ideas are from our good ol' federal government.
The Adoption Incentive Program was created as part of the federal Adoption and Safe Families Act of 1997, which authorized incentive funds (like bonuses) to states that increased the number of children adopted out of foster care. This plan actually saves the states money, because once a child is adopted, the state no longer pays a monthly check to the foster parents.
The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act of 2008 (quite a fancy name) provided stronger incentives (more money) for states to find children adoptive homes (especially for older children and children with special needs). Let's call them Special Children for this blog.
Why cash? People who plan to adopt still prefer white babies, as to be expected per adoption propaganda.
Why babies? Adoptive parents are convinced they can mold the baby to their expectations, the earlier the better.
For each SPECIAL child in Louisiana, the incentive awards are $4,000 for each foster child adoption; $4,000 for each special needs child; and $8,000 for each child age nine or older. Some of these things you simply cannot make up. Perhaps this is why the Mormons especially tend to foster and adopt several children at one time. One Dine friend was one of 10 adopted by a Mormon family who also made them work outside the home. We are talking serious cash coming each month per foster child - from the state and from the Mormon's own church coffers.
If a person wishes to raise and parent a child, even a Special Child, why would there need to be a cash incentive?
Well, let me see… These are kids who have been in the system a long time, or they are labeled bad kids because they act out their frustrations, or they are damaged goods because of abuse (emotional, physical or sexual) by caregivers and parents. There are horror stories that circulate among adopters that some of the older ones won't bond.
A parent would have to be bribed with cash to adopt a damaged kid, right? What kind of parent would that person be, really?
In total, HHS awarded more than $32.5 million to Louisiana, Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
These are your tax dollars.
In a perfect world, if you want to raise and parent a child, you call your Department of Children and Family Services and get trained to be a foster parent. You do not legally adopt but become the child's legal guardian and you preserve contact with the child's first family. In this perfect world, federal dollars are spent to preserve, not separate, children from their families.
All Children are sacred and need our protection. Why aren't we there yet?
Labels: adoption practices, billion dollar adoption industry, cash incentives to adopters, Mormons adopting Indian Children, Trace A. DeMeyer
Kansas Supreme Court strongly supports ICWA #NDN
In re T.S.W., Kansas ICWA Case on Finality for Appeal and Placement in Private Adoptions
by Kate Fort via Turtle Talk
The Kansas Supreme Court again comes out with strong language in support of ICWA. In addition, the case, which has a complicated procedural history given the actions of the private adoption agency, provides an interesting analysis of what is a "final order" in an ICWA case and a discussion of the collateral order doctrine:
Under the circumstances presented here, we conclude the district court's order permitting a deviation from ICWA's placement preferences did not dispose of the entire merits of the case and left open the possibility of future action by the district court with respect to T.S.W.'s placement. Thus, the Tribe has not appealed from a "final order, judgment or decree" under K.S.A. 2011 Supp. 59-2401a(b)(1), and we lack statutory authority to hear this appeal.
But that holding does not end our analysis. Alternatively, the Tribe urges us to exercise jurisdiction under the collateral order doctrine. That doctrine, which we sparingly apply, provides a narrow exception to the final order requirement. It "allows appellate courts to reach 'not only judgments that "terminate an action," but also a "small class" of collateral rulings that, although they do not end the litigation, are appropriately deemed "final." [Citation omitted.]'" Kansas Medical Mut. Ins. Co., 291 Kan. at 611-12 (quoting Mohawk Industries, Inc. v. Carpenter, 558 U.S. ___, 130 S. Ct. 599, 605, 175 L. Ed. 2d 458 [2009]).
This case is also an illustration of the difficulties of ICWA and private adoptions. The adoption agency initially refused to consider any placements provided by the Cherokee Nation if the families couldn't pay the $27,500 fee:
In this case, we need not extensively consider whether the Agency followed the placement preferences before seeking a deviation from those preferences. It did not. While the Agency made some effort to satisfy the second placement preference when it requested the Tribe provide available adoptive family profiles, the Agency impermissibly qualified its request in at least two ways. First, the Agency provided the Tribe with Mother's extensive "criteria" for any prospective adoptive family. Second, the Agency specified that prospective adoptive families be able to pay the Agency's $27,500 fee requirement. And while the Agency eventually indicated a willingness to modify its fee based on an unspecified sliding scale, the parties never agreed as to the parameters of that scale because Mother chose a non-Indian family based on profiles presented to her from the Agency.
Essentially, the Agency grafted its substantial fee requirement as well as Mother's placement criteria (which ironically specified that the adoptive parents be Caucasian) onto ICWA's placement preferences. Common sense dictates that ICWA's placement preferences cannot be undermined in this manner. In fact, the Agency's actions appear to fly in the face of Congress' intent in enacting ICWA. See Holyfield, 490 U.S. at 37 (ICWA "'seeks to protect the rights of the Indian child as an Indian and the rights of the Indian community and tribe in retaining its children in its society' . . . by establishing 'a Federal policy that, where possible, an Indian child should remain in the Indian community'" and ensuring that Indian child welfare determinations are not based on a white, middle-class standard that often forecloses placement with an Indian family).
The Court found that the agency and the lower court did not follow the placement preferences of ICWA, even after the Nation provided 17-20 (!) potential adoptive families for the child, and reversed the decision.
Labels: Adoptee Rights, Cherokee, ICWA, Kansas Supreme Court, Kate Fort, Turtle Talk
Pa. man solves missing child case - his own
(CBS News) A year ago, a Philadelphia man clicked on a website for missing children, and found a picture of himself. That discovery sent Steve Carter on a search to unlock the secrets of his past.
Carter always knew he was adopted, but when got older, he started to wonder who his biological parents were. That curiosity and a simple web search took him on a journey that would change his life and even now, there are parts of his story that remain a mystery.
Read here:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57419742/pa-man-solves-missing-child-case-his-own/
The following is a gallery documenting Carter's incredible life journey as featured on "CBS This Morning."
On June 21, 1977, 5-month old Marx Panama Moriarity Barnes disappears with his mother, Charlotte Moriarity, from Haaula, Hawaii. They are reported missing three weeks later. Marx's father, who is not married to his mother, launches an all-out search, but finds nothing.
Credit: Steve Carter
Labels: Adoptee reunions, adoptee search for mother, CBS News, lost children, Steve Carter, Trace A. DeMeyer
The Canary Effect (on Indigenous People)
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The Canary Effect is a 2006 documentary that looks into the effects of that the United States and its policies have on the Indigenous peoples (Native Americans) who are residents. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and won the Stanley Kubrick Award at the 2006 Traverse City Film Festival (Michael Moore hosts).
The movie was directed by Robin Davey and Yellow Thunder Woman, who are both members of LA Based alternative pop group The Bastard Fairies. The documentary was released on DVD in 2008.
Labels: Columbus, Myths, Native Americans
Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon
Where Did Joseph Smith Get His Ideas
for the Book of Mormon?
By Sandra Tanner
One of the claims often made by LDS people is that there was no information on the Indian ruins in Mexico and Guatemala available prior to 1830. Actually, numerous books recounting similar ideas as those in Joseph Smith's Book of Mormon had already been published.
Many of the books published on the American Indians claimed a possible tie to the lost tribes of Israel. The Book of Mormon follows this idea and claims that the main group in the story is Israelites from Jerusalem. Other ideas found in the Book of Mormon that are also found in books of Smith's time include: two groups warring against each other, a white group destroyed by war, horses, use of the wheel, mammoth bones, Hebrew writings, Egyptian influence, the use of stone boxes, written records, temples, grand ruins, highways, fortifications, etc. These commonly held theories prepared the way for people to more readily believe the Book of Mormon.
However, current findings and non-LDS scholars now reject these ideas and see no relationship between the American Indians and Hebrews or the civilization depicted in the Book of Mormon.
Below is a partial list of books published prior to 1830 dealing with the Indians (condensed from Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon, Dan Vogel, Signature Books, Salt Lake City, Utah, 1986, pp. 105-132).
Adair, James, The History of the American Indians, London, 1775.
Adair's evidence for the Indian-Israelite theory consists of twenty-three parallels between Indian and Jewish customs. For example, he claims the Indians spoke a corrupt form of Hebrew, honored the Jewish Sabbath, performed circumcision, and offered animal sacrifice.
Boudinot, Elias, A Star in the West; or a Humble Attempt to Discover the Long Lost Ten Tribes of Israel, Trenton, 1816.
He relies heavily on evidences compiled by James Adair. He also mentions the Indians' lost book of God.
Burke, Edmund, An Account of the European Settlements in America, 2 vol. 2nd ed., London, 1758 — many editions including one in 1808.
Mentions the Mexican and Peruvian temples.
Cusick, David, Sketches of the Ancient History of the Six Nations, Lewistone, NY, 1827.
Records Indian fables, which he believes, support the mound builder myth. One fable, for example, speaks of the descendants of two brothers continually at war with the other until one group is finally destroyed in North America.
Flint, Timothy, Recollections of the Last Ten Years, Passed in Occasional Residences and Journeyings in the Valley of the Mississippi, Boston, 1826.
He mentions the idea that the Indians were Jewish but does not commit himself on the subject. He describes various burial mounds and fortifications of North America and mentions the discovery of mammoth bones and stone coffins.
Haywood, John, The Natural and Aboriginal History of Tennessee, Nashville, 1823.
Compares American antiquities with those of Hindus, Egyptians, and Hebrews. He describes North American fortifications and Mexican temples, use of metals, including steel, copper and brass plates, describes stone boxes, possible use of the wheel and horse in ancient America, and concludes that the mound builders were a white people destroyed by the Indians.
Humboldt, Alexander, three different books on American Indian; one 4 vol. set was titled Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain. Baltimore, 1813.
Describes Mexican fortifications and temples, use of metals.
Imlay, George, A Topographical Description of the Western Territory of North America, London, 1793.
Discusses, among other things, the practice of the mound builders to bury their dead in stone boxes.
Israel, Manasseh ben, The Hope of Israel, London, 1652 and 1792.
Includes story of a remnant of the ten tribes of Israel being discovered in Peru.
Juarros, Domingo, A Statistical and Commercial History of the Kingdom of Guatemala, London, 1823.
Claims Indians from the Old World, claims original inhabitants arrived in the New World shortly after the dispersion from the tower of Babel, describes Guatemalan fortifications, buildings, temples, and palaces, including the ruins of Palenque.
Loudon, Archibald, A Selection of Some of the Most Interesting Narratives of Outrages Committed by the Indians, in Their Wars with the White People, 2 vols. Carlisle, PA, 1811.
He supports the ten tribe theory, mentions that the Spaniards dug up Indian tombstones covered with Hebrew characters, and compares Peruvian temples to Jewish synagogues.
McCulloh, James H., Researches on America; Being an Attempt to Settle Some Points Relative to the Aborigines of America &c., Baltimore, 1817.
Discusses various theories explaining Indian origins, problems of transoceanic crossing, and discusses the theory that the mound builders were a white group more advanced than the Indians.
Mather, Cotton, India Christiana. A Discourse, Delivered unto the Commissioners, for the Propagation of the Gospel among the American Indians, Boston, 1721.
Suggests that those in the Old World could have sailed to America.
Mather, Samuel, An Attempt to Shew, that America Must Be Known to the Ancients, Boston, 1773.
He believes that America was populated by two major migrations, one from the tower of Babel and the other, centuries later, from Asia or possibly Phoenicia. He also subscribes to the theory that ancient America was visited by Christ's apostles or perhaps by some of the seventy.
Mills, Nicholas, History of Mexico, London, 1824.
Describes Mexican pyramids and compares them with those of Egypt.
Moulton, William, A Concise Extract, from the Sea Journal of William Moulton, Utica, NY, 1804.
He describes his visits to ruined Peruvian cities with "large palaces" and "elegant buildings" and Incan highways running over a thousand miles.
Niles, John Milton, A View of South America and Mexico, New York, 1825 (various ed. after that).
Describes palaces and temples in Peru.
Parrish, Elijah, A New System of Modern Geography, Newburyport, MA, 1810.
Parrish wrote his geography for use in New England schools. He describes mounds in North America and the Peruvian temple at Cusco. Includes a comparison of Indian and Israelite customs.
Poinsett, Joel Roberts, Notes on Mexico, Made in the Autumn of 1822, Philadelphia, 1824.
Mentions the Mexican tradition of the Flood, notes their immense pyramids and long paved roads, and mentions their hieroglyphic drawings and knowledge of astronomy and metallurgy.
Priest, Josiah, The Wonders of Nature and Providence, Displayed, Albany, 1825 and 1826.
A compilation of many previously published works, includes an extract from Francisco Clavigero's History of Mexico recounting the ancient Mexican traditions of idolatry and human sacrifice and a portion from Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews detailing evidence that Indians were of Hebrew origin.
Rio, Antonio del, Description of the Ruins of an Ancient City, Discovered Near Palenque, in the Kingdom of Guatemala, London, 1822.
Rio describes various ruins at Palenque, includes plates of some of the structures, several Mayan codices. He suggests that the ancient Americans came by sea. He also mentions the tradition of an eclipse in AD 34 and speculates that the Mexican god Quetzalcoatl was St. Thomas preaching the gospel in ancient America.
Sewall, Samuel, Phaenomena Quaedam Apocalyptica, Boston, 1697 and 1727.
Suggests that the Indians are Israelites, that America might be the place of the New Jerusalem, and that the 'other sheep' mentioned in John 10:16 are the American Indians.
Smith, Ethan, View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America, Poultney, VT, 1823 and 1825.
Ethan Smith's is by far the most important and interesting work dealing with the origin of the American Indians and the mound builders. Suggests that the first settlers of the New World were the lost ten tribes of Israel. Includes extracts from von Humboldt's description of Mexican antiquities, Atwater's description of the mounds, and evidence from Adair and Boudinot to connect Indians with the lost ten tribes. He also mentions the Indian legend of the lost book of God, which would one day be returned.
Sullivan, James, The History of the District of Main, Boston, 1795.
He maintains the Ohio fortifications were built by people from Mexico and Peru because North American Indians did not possess the knowledge to construct them.
Thorowgood, Thomas, Jews in America, or, Probabilities That the Americans are of that Race, London, 1652.
He mentions the notion that the gospel was anciently preached in America. Emphasized the millennialistic nature of his Indian-Israelite identification and the importance of the Indians' conversion to Christianity.
Walton, William, Present State of the Spanish Colonies, 2 vols. London, 1810.
Mentions the Indian belief in the Creation and Flood and includes a description of Mexican architecture and metalwork.
Williams, Roger, A Key into the Language of America, Boston, 1827.
He believes that Indian language is a form of Hebrew and that their customs resemble those of the Jews. Although he is tolerant of the Indians, Williams believes their religion is devil inspired.
Williams, Samuel, The Natural and Civil History of Vermont, Burlington, VT, 1809.
Discusses various theories of Indian origins. Mentions the discovery of mammoth bones in North America.
Worsley, Israel, A View of the American Indians, London, 1828.
Relies heavily on Ethan Smith's View of the Hebrews. Believes mound builders had been destroyed by the Indians, mentions the discovery of large stone crosses in Central America and records the Indian tradition of a lost book of God.
Yates, John and Joseph Moulton, History of the State of New York, 1824.
They describe mounds and fortifications in their state and neighboring states, as well as the ruins of an ancient city near Palenque. According to them, these mounds, part of a great chain running down through Mexico and into South America, were built by a separate race of white-skinned people who were destroyed by the Indians. They mention the discovery of hieroglyphic writing and mammoth bones, and include reports that Indians in certain locales possessed the signs and tokens of Freemasonry.
The claims of Israelite origins, Hebrew and Egyptian writing, knowledge of the wheel, use of the horse, Freemasonry, a white race destroyed by the Indians, etc., have been refuted by current scholars.
But the existence and popularity of so many books making these claims prior to the publishing of the Book of Mormon demonstrates that Smith could have gotten his ideas for the Book of Mormon from sources in his community.
History continues to be an intrepretation and religion often its misguided messenger...Trace
Labels: Lamanites, Mormon history, Mormons adopting Indian Children, Split feathers syndrome, Trace A. DeMeyer
The Aleut Tragedy
One point many Native Americans make repeatedly is our history has been altered, changed or not taught.
This documentary The ALEUT STORY narrated by Martin Sheen proves this point...
http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/aleut_story
Labels: Aleut, American Indian history, genocide, Martin Sheen, The Aleut Story
Author Susan Devan Harness - on Lost Birds/adoptees!
The Land of Gazillion Adoptees Podcast Conversation with Susan Harness, author of Mixing Cultural Identities through Transracial Adoption: Outcomes of the Indian Adoption Project
by kostvollmers
I have known Susan since 2008 when we gave a talk on Stolen Generations in Wisconsin. She is brilliant, her book is excellent and this podcast about American Indian Adoptees is so important - please click on headline and listen and share with other adoptees and parents of adoptees ... Trace
AND: this posted today _ May 3, 2012:
Sandy White Hawk's Response to Susan Harness
Labels: Adoption issues, Broken Circle, Indian adoption project, Split feathers syndrome, Susan Harness
Deportation Cases: Adoptees
As I wrote last year, children who were adopted by Americans have absolutely no idea who they are or where they were born or where their home country is - until they are old enough to read and ask questions.
Do you think a child knows or understands what it means to be a citizen? Hardly. It depends on their age, if they remember being brought to the USA for adoption.
The following stories on Pound Pup Legacy should shed a bright light on this horrific situation for adoptees who did nothing but be adopted by Americans.
Because their adoptive parents didn't get them their American citizenship, now they face deportation, immediate expulsion from America. Yes, a few of them have committed crimes, mostly minor, but in any case, how does an adoptee return to their place of birth when they have no recollection of their people or place or language?
Again, the billion dollar adoption industry pumps up the propaganda to convince more and more people to adopt - even today....to make money... [sigh] ... Trace
http://poundpuplegacy.org/deportation_cases
http://splitfeathers.blogspot.com/2012/03/adoptees-deported-by-us-yes.html
And last year's blog post ILLEGAL ALIENS: Deported Adoptees: http://splitfeathers.blogspot.com/2011/04/illegal-aliens-deported-adoptees.html
Link: Stop Deporting Adoptees: by John Raible
http://splitfeathers.blogspot.com/2011/11/stop-deporting-adoptees.html
If you want to know more about my memoir:
Labels: ARENA, billion dollar adoption industry, Deporting adoptees, Pound Pup Legacy, Split Feathers, Trace A. DeMeyer
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A measure of just how far party politics has sunk, and the extent to which the desperation of politicians to see their tribe 'in power' trumps everything, can be seen in Nick Boles' suggestion that the National Liberal Party be revived by the Conservatives.
Such is the contempt in which voters are held by the political class, politicians like Boles believe that the Conservatives setting up a modern day National Liberal Party – which in its previous incarnation after splitting from the Liberal Party had the likes of Michael Heseltine and John Nott on its roll, before going on to merge completely with the Conservatives in 1968 – would attract liberal-minded voters at the next general election that the Conservative brand cannot.
The point here is that Boles is admitting the Conservatives are unpopular and need to win Liberal Democrat votes. Knowing most of those Lib Dem supporters who could be tempted to jump ship from the SS Clegg would jump left rather than right, he is pinning his hopes on people falling for a false flag party that, he reasons, would appeal to the centre left yet obey the Conservatives' bidding without question. It failed in the 60s and it would fail again now. But the fact the idea is even being kicked around shows the depths these people will plumb.
Of course, nowhere in all these shenanigans is there any consideration of what the people may want, or recognition that most of the promises the parties will make ahead of the 2015 General Election could never be honoured in any case because the power sits in Brussels, not Westminster. While a relatively small story with little traction, this is by far one of the most cynical trains of thought and naked attempts to con voters into supporting something they don't want that has so far emerged from the festering swamp that is home to the political bubble.
Voting for any of these lying crooks would be an obscenity. They are nothing more than children playing games. We are looking on at the politics of the kindergarten. It's well past time for a change to the system.


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Henry feels strange about Arsenal return
Can Arsenal gain an all important first leg advantage over Barcelona? Click here for the best quarter-final first leg odds.
Barcelona striker Thierry Henry admits his return to face former club Arsenal will be a "strange" experience.
Henry will face his former club for the first time when his current side Barcelona meet Arsenal in Wednesday's Champions League quarter-final clash.
The Frenchman left the Gunners in June 2007 to join Barca after spending eight years with Arsene Wenger's side, where he became the club's all time leading goalscorer.
And ahead of the meeting with his old team, Henry admitted he had hoped to avoid Arsenal in the draw.
"I'm very emotional, but also staying calm," he said. "It will be a strange game for me. Before the draw I said that I did not want to face Arsenal.
"That was my wish. But now that's the game we've got and we'll have to give everything.
"It's very special. To return home is strange and even more so in the quarter-finals of the Champions League."
Henry was part of the Arsenal side that lost out to Barca in the 2006 final, and he will now line up against his former team-mates.
"It will be different because I spent seven years at Highbury and only one at the Emirates, but to see the people, the fans and the other employees at the club again will be very strange.
"It will be only the second time. I do not know how the fans will react.
"For Barca's supporters it is a dream to go to Madrid and for me it's strange to be facing Arsenal en route to that. But football is like that."
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Christopher P. Brabant, MBA, FACHE, Named President and CEO of HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital
July 23, 2018 July 23, 2018 Katie Pecha General
HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital is pleased to announce the appointment of Christopher P. Brabant, MBA, FACHE, to serve as the hospital's next president and CEO.
Since 2013, Chris has served as the HSHS Eastern Wisconsin Division Executive Director of Surgical Services for the Heart, Lung and Vascular Center and Prevea Health Vascular Surgery in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Under his leadership, he has been responsible for the strategic planning, business operations and financial viability of the center and service lines, including the implementation of the Transcatheter Aortic Valve program, the new Prevea-HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital cardiology program in partnership with his Prevea SLD counterpart, and the implementation of the Regional Outreach General and Vascular Surgical Program at HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital.
"Chris has done an incredible job in his current role within HSHS, and we know that his combined experience in business and health care and his track record of successful leadership make him a great fit to position St. Clare," said Mary Starmann-Harrison, president and CEO of Hospital Sisters Health System (HSHS), which along with HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital, includes 14 other hospitals across Wisconsin and Illinois. "We are pleased he has accepted our invitation to serve in this new role within our Franciscan healing ministry."
"HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital is still a relatively new part to the HSHS family, and we are excited to bring Chris into this leadership role to continue serving the Oconto Falls community," said Therese Pandl, president and CEO of the HSHS Eastern Wisconsin Division, which in addition to St. Clare Memorial Hospital includes HSHS St. Nicholas Hospital in Sheboygan, HSHS St. Vincent Hospital and HSHS St. Mary's Hospital Medical Center in Green Bay. "We look forward to having Chris transition and bring his experience to St. Clare."
Chris earned a Master's Degree in Business Administration with a focus on Health Care Administration from the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, and Baccalaureate of Science in Perfusion Technology from St. Louis University. He is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives, a Certified Surgical Technician, holds a State of Wisconsin Perfusion License and is certified by the American Board of Cardiovascular Perfusion. He has been very active in the community, serving on numerous boards, coalitions and groups, and will continue to do so in the Oconto Falls community.
"It's been an honor to be a part of the HSHS family since 2013, and I'm incredibly honored that our leadership has confidence in my ability to lead the team at St. Clare Memorial," said Chris.
Chris will officially begin his role as HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital president and CEO on August 20, 2018. Paula Hafeman, Chief Nursing Executive of HSHS Eastern Wisconsin Division, is currently serving as the interim president and CEO of HSHS St. Clare Memorial Hospital.
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Report: Russia Continues to Use Nuclear Threats to Intimidate Neighbors
Featuring Richard Fontaine
Source: USNI News
Journalist John Grady
Nuclear escalation — tactical and strategic — is something Russians can use to cow their neighbors to get their way is real, but what may happen after using those weapons remains a deterrent to putting that doctrine into play, the co-author of a new report on Washington-Moscow conflict told USNI News last week.
While the fundamental strategic balance between the two countries remains in place, there have been changes over the years in how each views the others and what either will do to protect itself, Richard Fontaine, president of the Center for New American Security, said Friday.
Richard Fontaine is the Chief Executive Officer of CNAS. He served as President of CNAS from 2012–19 and as Senior Fellow from 2009–12. Prior to CNAS, he was foreign policy ad...


He's one of Canada's most successful trainers but one accomplishment missing from Mark Casse's impressive resume is a Queen's Plate victory.
The six-time Sovereign award winner as the country's top conditioner will send three horses — including 4-1 early second choice Lexie Lou and 8-1 third pick Matador — postward Sunday in search of his first career win in North America's oldest, continuously run stakes event at Woodbine Racetrack. Casse's best finish in the $1-million, 1 1/4-mile race was second in '11 with Hippolytus.
"When you travel around Canada and tell people you're a horse trainer, they want to know if you've won the Queen's Plate," Casse said following the race draw Thursday. "So far, the answer is no but hopefully after Sunday I'll be able to say yes.
"I would like to win the Kentucky Derby, that one is big too, but this (Plate win) would be No. 1."
We Miss Artie is the 8-5 favourite despite running slower than Lexie Lou their last time out. We Miss Artie rallied to capture the 1 1/8-mile Plate Trial in 1:50.78 on June 15 at Woodbine before Lexie Lou's impressive 4 1/2-length Woodbine Oaks win in 1:49.77 over the same distance moments later.
Lexie Lou will carry five pounds less than the others in the 15-horse field Sunday as the lone filly.
"Going a mile and a quarter, five pounds is a big difference," Casse said. "In her last race, she ran a second faster than the favourite and that means something.
"I think there's a good shot there will be a female winner this year."
Lexie Lou will attempt to become the 35th filly to win the Plate but just the seventh since '56. And only five Oaks winners have also claimed Canada's most prestigious race, the last being Inglorious in 2011.
We Miss Artie drew the No. 6 post while Lexie Lou will break from the No. 14 position. Matador starts from the No. 10 post while Majestic Sunset, Casse's third horse and the second-place finisher in the Plate Trial, goes from the No. 7 post.
"I think this is the strongest hand we've ever brought to the table," Casse said. "With any race you can have the best horses but you still need to have some luck.
"We're ready. Sooner or later we'll get this thing."
1) Cap in Hand, Steven Bahen, 50-1; 2) Coltimus Prime, Jesse Campbell 20-1; 3) Athenian Guard, Omar Moreno, 50-1; 4) Asserting Bear, Chantal-Sutherland Kruse, 10-1; 5) Man o' Bear, Emma-Jayne Wilson, 30-1; 6) We Miss Artie, Javier Castellano, 8-5; 7) Majestic Sunset, Gary Boulanger, 15-1; 8) Lions Bay, David Moran, 30-1; 9) Heart to Heart Eurico Rosa de Silva, 30-1; 10) Matador, Julien Leparoux, 8-1; 11) One Destiny, Justin Stein, 30-1; 12) Tower of Texas, John Velazquez, 20-1; 13) Niigon Express, Gerry Olguin, 30-1; 14) Lexie Lou, Patrick Husbands, 4-1; 15) Ami's Holiday, Luis Contreras.
Favourites have won 22-of-58 renewals (37 per cent) since '56 but only two — Wando in '03 and Eye of the Leopard in '09 — have been victorious in the last 19 editions.
— Not only is a filly the No. 2 pick but two women will ride Sunday. Sutherland-Kruse, who came out of retirement to ride this year at Woodbine, will be aboard Asserting Bear while Man o' Bear, will be ridden by Wilson, who became the only female jockey to win the Plate in '07 with Mike Fox. Also, trainer Josie Carroll chases a third Plate victory with Ami's Holiday.
— Hall of Fame trainer Roger Attfield tries for a record ninth Plate win with Tower of Texas. Attfield's last Plate victory was in '08 with Not Bourbon.
— For the first time ever, a father and two sons will saddle separate entries. Hall of Famer Sid Attard conditions Cap in Hand while Paul Attard sends out Niigon Express and Jamie Attard trains Lions Bay.


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Les Championnats d'Europe de pentathlon moderne 1993 se sont tenus à Sofia, en Bulgarie, pour les compétitions masculines, et à Györ, en Hongrie, pour les compétitions féminines.

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Budget Car Rental has announced that it has opened more than 175 new locations across Europe so far this year, with more to follow as part of a strategic growth initiative.
In Germany, Budget is doubling its number of rental facilities.
Since April this year, Budget has opened more than 150 new locations, bringing the total number of rental facilities in Germany to nearly 300.
New locations include Erfurt in the Northeast as well as Göttingen, Garmisch-Partenkirchen and Starnberg in the western and southern parts of the country.
Budget's expansion in Germany also includes new locations at airports serving Hamburg, Muenster and Dusseldorf, among others.
"The opening of the new Budget Car Rental locations demonstrates our commitment to better serving value-conscious travellers across Europe," said Larry De Shon, president, Europe, Middle East and Africa, Avis Budget Group.
In the UK, there are eight new locations and Edinburgh which has recently moved.
The new locations include London St. Pancras, which opened earlier this year, and Truro, which will open in the coming months.
There will be six new retail locations opening from September through to October, including Wembley, Yeading, Harlow and a second Budget location for Birmingham.
In France, three new locations have been added in Montpellier, Nice and Marseille.
A further 20 locations were also added across Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg.
This year has also seen a planned investment to expand the presence of Budget in Portugal.
There are now 19 Budget stations in 17 locations, including Faro, Madeira, Oporto and Lisbon.


We're eager to announce that we just partnered with Blizzard Marketing in Colorado, the aim is boosting our online standing and reputation.
In the past few months growth has been lagging behind. There has been a general slow down in traffic (see details below) and overall apartments grew by just (5%). We need a boost.
Roman Reference alexa ranking slowed down from 66,000 to present 77,000 (down 16%) and compete from 360,000 to 535,00 (down 48%!). Also in terms of apartments growth raise has been slow from 455 to actual 461 (annualized growth 2.9%).
Paris Reference lost positions from 137,00 to 172,000 on Alexa (down 25%) and from 649,000 to 753,000 on compete (down 14%). Apartments grew into 86 (annualized growth 24%).
Copenhagen Reference went from 358,000 to 553,00 (down 35%) and from 878,000 to 847,000 (so it actually grew on Compete.com). Stable on apartments.
Cities Reference from 518,000 to 624,000 (down 20%) and 742,000 to 988,000 (down 33%).
New York Reference from 793,000 to 1,584,000 (down 99%!), while it grew 10% on compete from 936,000 to 847,000! Apartment growth has been astounding from 9 to 21 (270% annualized growth).
London Reference from 1,053,000 to 1,755,000 and from 742,000 to 1,073,000. Stable on apartments.
Berlin Reference from 1,090,000 to 1,494,000 on alexa, while it grew on compete from 1,197,000 to 1,070,000. Stable on apartments.
Barcelona Reference from 1,186,000 to 2,575,000 while it grew on Compete from 935,000 to 846,000. Stable on apartments.
Miami Reference from 1,223,000 to 3,041,000 and 927,000 to 1,074,000. Stable on apartments.
Madrid Reference from 2,235,000 to 2,654,000 and now ranked on compete at 1,073,000.


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Alabama Graphite Corp. Announces Completion of the Coosa Graphite Project Updated Mineral Resource Estimate
Reporting an 89% Increase in Indicated Mineral Resources to 1.88 Million Tons Contained Graphite; Advancing the only Flake Graphite Project in the Contiguous United States of America
October 13, 2015 08:00 ET | Source: Alabama Graphite Corp.
VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA--(Marketwired - Oct. 13, 2015) -
Editors Note: There are two maps associated with this release.
Alabama Graphite Corp. ("AGC" or the "Company") (TSX VENTURE:ALP) (OTCQX:ABGPF) (FRANKFURT:1AG) is pleased to announce the completion of an updated mineral resource estimate for the Company's 100%-owned Coosa Graphite Project, located in Coosa County, east-central Alabama, USA, consisting of 78,488,000 tons in the Indicated Resource category grading 2.39% graphitic carbon ("Cg"), and 79,443,000 tons in the Inferred Resource category grading 2.56% Cg, utilizing a 1% cutoff grade (the "Updated Mineral Resource Estimate"). The Updated Mineral Resource Estimate is based on both the 2012 and 2014-15 exploration and drilling programs, consisting of a total of 109 drill holes totaling 25,905 feet of drilling (including 40 new holes totaling 5,665.5 feet) plus 11 new trenches totaling 3,425 feet of sampling, which were treated as drill holes, as of October 2, 2015. The Updated Mineral Resource Estimate was prepared by Metal Mining Consultants Inc. of Highlands Ranch, Colorado, who also prepared an initial mineral resource estimate for the Coosa Graphite Project in 2013. (Note: to view the Alabama Graphite Corp. Coosa Graphite Project 2012 and 2014-15 Drill Hill Hole and Trench Map, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/Map1AGC.pdf)
Highlights of the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate include:
Indicated Mineral Resource of 78,488,000 tons, grading 2.39% Cg at a 1% cutoff grade, for a total of 1,876,000 tons contained/in-situ graphite - the largest graphite Indicated Resource in the United States of America
Inferred Mineral Resource of 79,443,000 tons, grading at 2.56% Cg at a 1% cutoff grade, for a total of 2,034,000 tons contained/in-situ graphite
AGC's 2015 drill program further substantiates the positive continuity of near-surface, oxidized higher-grade graphitic material, within a simple geological setting, successfully upgrading a significant amount of the previous Inferred resource to the Indicated resource category
The drilling campaign successfully increased the amount of oxide material in the Mineral Resource Estimate
AGC will utilize the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate to prepare its maiden Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA") for the Coosa Graphite Project, currently underway and scheduled for publication in Q4 2015
UPDATED MINERAL RESOURCE ESTIMATE
The 2015 Coosa Graphite Project drilling program results successfully upgraded a significant portion of the previously released initial mineral resource estimate (announced on September 3, 2013 and filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com) (the "Initial Mineral Resource Estimate") from the Inferred to the Indicated resource categories and sizably increased the Inferred resource category. These results, in conjunction with the results from the Company's pilot plant, currently underway at SGS Mineral Services in Lakefield Ontario (see September 15, 2015 news release), will provide the foundation for the Company's Preliminary Economic Assessment ("PEA"), currently being prepared by AGP Mining Consultants Inc. (announced July 27, 2015) and scheduled for completion in Q4 2015. This Updated Mineral Resource Estimate replaces the Company's Initial Mineral Resource Estimate which consisted of 38,159,000 tons in the Indicated Resource category grading 2.60% Cg, and 26,992,000 tons in the Inferred Resource category grading 2.87% Cg, utilizing a 2% cutoff grade, as opposed to a 1% cutoff grade utilized for the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate.
Table 1. Coosa Graphite Project Mineral Resource Estimate @ 1.0% Cg Cutoff (effective date: October 2, 2015)
Resource Category Tonnage
(Tons) Graphitic Carbon
(Cg %) In-situ/Contained Graphite (Tons)
Indicated 78,488,000 2.39 1,876,000
Inferred 79,433,000 2.56 2,034,000
*Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no guarantee that all or any part of the Mineral Resource will be converted into a Mineral Reserve.
INDICATED MINERAL RESOURCE
Table 2. Coosa Graphite Project Indicated Mineral Resource Cutoff Grade Variability
Cutoff Grade (%) Tonnage
(Cg %) In-situ/Contained Graphite
(Tons)
0.5 85,112,000 2.27 1,932,000
INFERRED MINERAL RESOURCE
Table 3. Coosa Graphite Project Inferred Mineral Resource Cutoff Grade Variability
*Inferred Mineral Resources represent material that is considered too speculative to be included in economic evaluations. Additional trenching and/or drilling will be required to convert Inferred Mineral Resources to Measured or Indicated Mineral Resources. Mineral Resources that are not Mineral Reserves do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no guarantee that all or any part of the Mineral Resource will be converted into a Mineral Reserve.
The Coosa Graphite Project resource pit measures 3,200 feet in a north-east direction and 1,900 feet in a south-east direction, with a maximum depth of 475 feet. The reported resource was constrained by a geologic model and by an optimized GEOVIA Whittle™ pit in order to identify the portion of the mineral deposit that may meet the reasonable prospects of eventual economic extraction. The pit extents were derived by using a net graphite selling price of USD$5,761.05 per ton for both primary- and secondary-processed final graphite product. Mining costs were calculated at USD$3.65 per ton. Processing (primary and secondary) costs were USD$14.56 per ton of processed material, with additional general and administrative costs of USD$4.54 per ton processed. Combined processing recoveries of the primary- and secondary-processed final graphite product were 82.8%. The Updated Mineral Resource Estimate will form the basis for an additional program of cost-effective infill trenching, which the Company anticipates will further upgrade the mineral resources to the Measured and Indicated categories. (Note: to view the Alabama Graphite Corp. Coosa Graphite Project Isometric Resource Model Sections - Indicated and Inferred Mineralization, please visit the following link: http://media3.marketwire.com/docs/Map2AGC.jpg)
In the Company's Initial Mineral Resource Estimate, based on the results of a 69-hole, 20,239.4-foot drill program, the selling price for primary processed, run-of-mine production was assumed to be USD$1,450 per ton of graphite. Mining, milling and processing costs were estimated at USD$2.00 per ton for mining and USD$10.00 per ton for processing, based on publicly available graphite mining costs. Graphite recoveries for primary processed, run-of-mine production were assumed to be 90% for primary processed graphite product. The difference in graphite selling price per ton and graphite recoveries between the Initial Mineral Resource Estimate and the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate reflects management's strategic intent - pending publication of a positive PEA - of exclusively targeting the oxide portion of the Coosa Graphite Project's mineral resource and, subsequently, to divert all graphite production to secondary-processed, specialty high-purity graphite (see September 29, 2015 news release, regarding the Company's preliminary graphite purification trials at one of North America's premier - and completely independent of the Company - metallurgical laboratories), which will be outlined in the forthcoming PEA.
Donald Baxter, P.Eng., Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alabama Graphite Corp. commented, "The release of our updated, independent Mineral Resource Estimate for the Coosa Graphite Project represents a major milestone for Alabama Graphite and its shareholders. We are very pleased with the results. Our rapid progress at Coosa can be attributed to the project's demonstrated ease of extraction of our oxide material, an at-surface deposit and simple geology. Combined, these factors have allowed us to significantly increase the Indicated and Inferred Resources as a result of our 2015 expanded drilling program.
"This updated Mineral Resource Estimate, coupled with the results from our 200-ton pilot plant, will provide us with a solid foundation to develop AGC's Preliminary Economic Assessment, scheduled to be released later this year. The PEA will be based on a strategy not to sell conventional, run-of-mine graphite, but to further process the run-of-mine graphite into a secondary, specialty graphite - in particular, coated spherical graphite (or 'CSPG') for use in Lithium-ion batteries," said Mr. Baxter.
"I believe our successfully updated Mineral Resource Estimate further demonstrates the importance of having a knowledgeable and highly experienced graphite mining team when attempting to advance a graphite project. Because the AGC team embodies those traits, we have been able to accelerate our progress effectively to complete this latest milestone. The update has further increased our knowledge and confidence in the Coosa mineral deposit, which will be very helpful in identifying further optimization opportunities as we develop the PEA for the project," stated Ron Roda, President and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Alabama Graphite Corp. "We look forward to the release of the PEA, pilot plant results and reporting further on specialty graphite developments."
Mineral resources were estimated in conformance with the CIM Mineral Resource definitions referred to in National Instrument 43-101 Standards of Disclosure for Mineral Projects. An independent technical report that supports the Updated Mineral Resource Estimate will be filed by the Company on SEDAR (www.sedar.com) within 45 days of publication of this news release.
Alabama Graphite Corp. remains on schedule to publish the Coosa Graphite Project's PEA in Q4 2015 (see July 27, 2015 announcement) incorporating the Company's drill results from 2012 to summer 2015.
Scott E. Wilson, C.P.G., President of Metal Mining Consultants Inc., a Qualified Person as defined by National Instrument 43-101 guidelines and an independent consultant to the Company, has reviewed and approved of the contents of this press release.
About Alabama Graphite Corp.
Alabama Graphite Corp. is a Canadian-based flake graphite exploration and development company. The Company operates through its wholly owned subsidiary, Alabama Graphite Company Inc. (a company registered in the state of Alabama). With the most advanced flake graphite project in the contiguous United States of America, Alabama Graphite Corp.'s objective is to become the first producing American graphite mine this century. A highly experienced team leads the Company with more than a 100 years of combined graphite mining, graphite processing, specialty graphite products and applications, and graphite sales experience. Alabama Graphite Corp. is focused on the exploration and development of its flagship Coosa Graphite Project in Coosa County, Alabama, and its Bama Mine Project in Chilton County, Alabama. The Coosa Graphite Project hosts an NI 43-101 Indicated Mineral Resource Estimate of 78.5 million tons grading 2.39% graphitic carbon (Cg) - the largest Indicated Mineral Resource of flake graphite in the United States. Please refer to the Company's technical report titled "Technical Report - Alabama Graphite Corp. - Coosa Project" dated September 5, 2013 prepared by Scott E. Wilson, C.P.G. and Stewart D. Redwood, F.I.M.M.M. and filed on SEDAR at www.sedar.com.
Alabama Graphite Corp. holds a 100% interest in the mineral rights for these two U.S.-based graphite projects, which are both located on private land. The two projects encompass more than 43,000 acres and are located in a geopolitically stable, mining-friendly jurisdiction with significant historical production of crystalline flake graphite in the flake graphite belt of central Alabama, also known as the Alabama Graphite Belt (source: U.S. Bureau of Mines). A significant portion of the Alabama deposits are characterized by graphite-bearing material that is oxidized and has been weathered into extremely soft rock. Both U.S. projects have infrastructure in place, are within close proximity to major highways, rail, power and water, and are approximately three hours (by truck or train) to the Port of Mobile, the Alabama Port Authority's deep-seawater port and the ninth largest port by tonnage in the United States (source: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers/USACE). The state of Alabama's hospitable climate allows for year-round mining operations and the world's largest marble quarry (which operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year in Sylacauga, Alabama), is located within a 30-minute drive of the Coosa Graphite Project.
For further information and updates on the Company, please visit www.alabamagraphite.com or follow us on Twitter (@AlabamaGraphite) and Facebook (/Alabama.Graphite).
Disclaimer for Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains forward-looking information under applicable Canadian securities laws ("forward-looking statements") that are based on the beliefs of management and reflect Alabama Graphite Corp.'s current expectations. When used in this press release, the words "estimate", "project", "belief", "anticipate", "intend", "expect", "plan", "predict", "may" or "should" and the negative of these words or such variations thereon or comparable terminology are intended to identify forward-looking statements. Such statements reflect the current view of Alabama Graphite Corp. with respect to risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from those contemplated in those forward-looking statements.
By their nature, forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause our actual results, performance or achievements, or other future events, to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. Such factors include, among other things, the interpretation and actual results of current exploration activities; changes in project parameters as plans continue to be refined; future prices of graphite; possible variations in grade or recovery rates; failure of equipment or processes to operate as anticipated; the failure of contracted parties to perform; labor disputes and other risks of the mining industry; delays in obtaining governmental approvals or financing or in the completion of exploration, as well as those factors disclosed in the Company's publicly filed documents. Forward-looking statements are also based on a number of assumptions, including that contracted parties provide goods and/or services on the agreed timeframes, that equipment necessary for exploration is available as scheduled and does not incur unforeseen breakdowns, that no labor shortages or delays are incurred, that plant and equipment function as specified, that no unusual geological or technical problems occur, and that laboratory and other related services are available and perform as contracted.
Forward-looking statements are made based on management's beliefs, estimates and opinions on the date that statements are made and Alabama Graphite Corp. undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements (unless required by law) if these beliefs, estimates and opinions or other circumstances should change. Investors are cautioned against attributing undue certainty to forward-looking statements.
Alabama Graphite Corp. cautions that the foregoing list of material factors and assumptions are not exhaustive. When relying on Alabama Graphite Corp. forward-looking statements to make decisions, investors and others should carefully consider the foregoing factors and assumptions and other uncertainties and potential events. Alabama Graphite Corp. has also assumed that the material factors and assumptions will not cause any forward-looking statements to differ materially from actual results or events. However, the list of these factors and assumptions is not exhaustive and is subject to change and there can be no assurance that such assumptions will reflect the actual outcome of such items or factors.
NEITHER THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE NOR ITS REGULATION SERVICE PROVIDER (AS THAT TERM IS DEFINED IN THE POLICIES OF THE TSX VENTURE EXCHANGE) ACCEPTS RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE ADEQUACY OR ACCURACY OF THE CONTENT OF THIS NEWS RELEASE.
ALABAMA GRAPHITE CORP.
Donald K. D. Baxter, P.Eng.
Co-Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
dbaxter@alabamagraphite.com
Ron S. Roda, CA, MBA, BSc
President, Co-Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director
rroda@alabamagraphite.com
Website: www.alabamagraphite.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/AlabamaGraphite
Facebook: www.facebook.com/alabama.graphite
The Alabama Graphite Corp. Coosa Graphite Project Updated Mineral Resource Estimate Drill Hole and Trench Map.
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The Alabama Graphite Corp. Coosa Graphite Project Isometric Resource Model Sections -- Indicated and Inferred Mineralization within Resource Constraining Shell.