A Child of the Indian Race: A Story of Return
White Hawk, Sandy / Thin Elk, Gene / Cross, Terry An adoptee reconnects with the Lakota family and culture she was born into--and nurtures a new tradition that helps others to do the same. In the 1950s, when Sandy White Hawk was a toddler, she was taken from her Lakota family on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Her adoption papers identify her as "a child of the Indian race, " and her adoptive mother never let her forget it, telling her she was unwanted and shaming her for bein...