This episode discusses the history of healthcare for Native Americans. This includes traditional healthcare techniques, the influence of food sources on health and the institution of systems to provide healthcare. Please note, this episode’s middle section describes a very disturbing period in which Native American women were coerced into sterilizations and sterilized without their knowledge.

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This episode of American History: A Book Report is a second part of education. This episode covers some more in-depth angles on the boarding schools, current day status of Native American students and how Native American history is taught in the U.S.

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This episode is about education in Native American history. It focuses on Indian boarding schools. Please note, this content is disturbing as these schools perpetrated mental, physical and sexual abuse against the Native American students.

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The second episode of American History: A Book Report is a continuation of the adoption discussion from the last episode. This episode covers legal challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). There are two court cases of main focus, including the Baby Veronica adoption and Haaland v. Brackeen. I discuss media perspectives as well as the substance of the arguments, particularly in regards to constitutionally based contentions.

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The first full episode of American History: A Book Report is about adoption of Native American children. This episode covers the widespread issue of Native children being purposefully adopted out to non-Native parents in the 1950s up until 1978 when the Indian Child Welfare Act was passed. The episode ends with a description of the basics of how ICWA works.

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Welcome! This is a short introductory episode of American History: A Book Report. It’s not a book report. It’s a podcast. It’s about Native American history, which is American history. This episode sets up my plans for this series and a little bit about me, JB.

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