The Best Stories You've nEver Read #21

Many years ago  the U.S. government encouraged a practice of having the children of unwed mothers on Indian reservations adopted off the reservation. Those children ended up in the hands of whites, some of whom would mention to their kids ... you have some Indian blood in you.... That made those children curious and sent them looking for their roots. In a moving story, Curt Brown of the Minneapolis Star Tribune tells of a homecoming on the White Earth Indian Reservation in northwestern Minnesota.

-- Dick Weiss