Truck Stop

7 Pages Posted: 23 Mar 2008

Abstract

Every American Indian person - repeat, every American Indian person - is related to or knows someone or is someone who has been adopted out of or removed from their reservation family. A significant percentage of each recent generation of American Indian people has grown up among strangers, either adopted by non-reservation families or force-fed through a state foster care system. This is, of course, one of the fundamental issues Congress hoped to address when it enacted the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978. This fictional narrative is my take on what it means for an Indian person to lose their family - and to regain it much, much later.

Keywords: Indian Child Welfare Act, short story, fiction, federal Indian law

Suggested Citation

Fletcher, Matthew L. M., Truck Stop. University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review, Forthcoming, MSU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 06-06, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1112093

Matthew L. M. Fletcher (Contact Author)

University of Michigan Law School ( email )

500 S. State Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109
United States

HOME PAGE: http://https://michigan.law.umich.edu/faculty-and-scholarship/our-faculty/matthew-lm-fletcher

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