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Author Dorgan, Byron L., author.

Title The girl in the photograph : the true story of a Native American child, lost and found in America / Byron L. Dorgan.

Publication Info. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  973.049 DOR    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  973.0497 DOR    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  973.0497 DORGAN    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  973.0497 D73G    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description x, 196 pages ; 22 cm
Note Subtitle from jacket.
Contents The lost girl -- A people under siege -- The kindness of a stranger -- There's little care in this health care system -- Teach the children well -- Justice is a stranger here -- The next generation of leaders -- Leadership -- Defenders of the earth -- The arc of the moral universe is bending Toward justice -- New opportunities -- What you can do.
Summary "Through the story of Tamara, an abused Native American girl, North Dakota Senator Byron Dorgan tells the story of the many children living on Indian reservations. On a winter morning in 1990, Senator Byron Dorgan of North Dakota picked up the Bismarck Tribune. On the front page, a small girl gazed into the distance, shedding a tear. The headline: "Foster home children beaten--and nobody's helping". Dorgan, who had been working with American Indian tribes to secure resources, was distressed. He flew to the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to meet with five-year-old Tamara and her grandfather. They became friends. Then she disappeared. And he would search for her for decades until they finally found each other again. This book is her story, from childhood to the present, but it's also the story of a people and a nation. More than one in three American Indian/Alaskan Native children live in poverty. AI/AN children are disproportionately in foster care and awaiting adoption. Suicide among AI/AN youth ages 15 to 24 is 2.5 times the national rate. How have we allowed this to happen? As distressing a situation as it is, this is also a story of hope and resilience. Dorgan, who founded the Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute, has worked tirelessly to bring Native youth voices to the forefront of policy discussions, engage Native youth in leadership and advocacy, and secure and share resources for Native youth. Readers will fall in love with this heartbreaking story, but end the book knowing what can be done and what they can do"-- Provided by publisher.
Local Subject Indigenous peoples -- North America -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Subject Indian youth -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions. (OCoLC)fst00969904
Indians, Treatment of -- United States.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies.
FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Abuse / Child Abuse.
Indians of North America -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Chronological Term 2000-2099
Subject United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Indians, Treatment of. (OCoLC)fst00970120
Local Subject Indigenous youth -- United States -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Indigenous peoples, Treatment of -- United States.
ISBN 9781250173645 (hardcover)
1250173647 (hardcover)
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