Indian Adoption Project

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Indian Adoption Project

United States program

Also known as: IAP

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Native American
The outplacement and adoption of Indigenous children
…of America in launching the Indian Adoption Project (IAP), the country’s first large-scale transracial adoption program. The IAP eventually moved between 25 and 35 percent of the Native children in the United States into interstate adoptions and interstate foster care placements. Essentially all of these children were placed with Euro-American…
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…of America in launching the Indian Adoption Project (IAP), the country’s first large-scale transracial adoption program. The IAP eventually moved between 25 and 35 percent of the Native children in the United States into interstate adoptions and interstate foster care placements. Essentially all of these children were placed with Euro-American…
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