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Potter, Kendra Mylnechuk.
Indian Adoption Project.
United States. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Interracial adoption -- United States -- Case studies.
Interethnic adoption -- United States -- Case studies.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
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Potter, Kendra Mylnechuk.
Indian Adoption Project.
United States. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Interracial adoption -- United States -- Case studies.
Interethnic adoption -- United States -- Case studies.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
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Daughter of a lost bird [videorecording (
DVD
)].
Women Make Movies, [2021].
Call #:
DVD
362
.734089
D238
Doc
Subjects
Potter, Kendra Mylnechuk.
Indian Adoption Project.
United States. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
Interracial adoption -- United States -- Case studies.
Interethnic adoption -- United States -- Case studies.
Indians of North America -- Cultural assimilation.
Format:
[videorecording (
DVD
)].
Description:
1 videodisc (66 min.) : 5.1 Dolby digital sd., col. ; 12 cm.
Notes:
Originally produced as a documentary film in 2021.
"Official Selection hotDOCS 2021"--Container.
Home use only.
Closed-captioned.
Production:
Produced by Jeri Rafter & Kendra Mylnechuk Potter ; produced and directed by Brooke Pepion Swaney.
Performers:
Kendra Mylnechuk Potter, April Kowalski.
Summary:
"“Lost birds” -- a term for Native children adopted out of their tribal communities. Right after the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 became the law of the land, Kendra Mylnechuk Potter was adopted into a white family and raised with no knowledge of her Native parentage. This beautiful and intimate film follows Kendra on her journey to find her birth mother April, also a Native adoptee, and return to her Lummi homelands in Washington State. With a sensitive yet unflinching lens, director Brooke Swaney (Blackfeet/Salish) documents Kendra and April as they connect with relatives and navigate what it means to be Native, and to belong to a tribe from the outside looking in. Along the way, Kendra uncovers generations of emotional and spiritual beauty and pain and comes to the startling realization that she is a living legacy of U. S. assimilationist policy. By sharing a deeply personal experience of inherited cultural trauma, the film opens the door to broader and more complicated conversations about the erasure of Native culture and questions of identity surrounding adoption."--Container.
Genre:
Documentary films
Biographical documentary films
Films for the hearing impaired.
DVDs.
Other authors:
Swaney, Brooke Pepion.
Potter, Kendra Mylnechuk.
Women Make Movies (Firm)
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