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All Grown Up
Adoption Stories of Adults By Teri Brown
If Laura Radmer's adoption story is fairly standard, Kimberlee Medicine Horn's story is not. Medicine Horn is one of "The Lost Birds," a child taken from their Native American birth mother and their reservation undr false pretenses. "She [Kimberlee's birth mother] had no idea she was signing permanent adoption papers," says Medicine Horn. "This was not uncommon in Indian country, as the basic idea was to remove as many Indian children from the reservations as possible. There were even "drop off cities" we were more likely to be sent to. We would be harder to find that way. Many or most of our adoptions sealed or had incorrect, non-identifying information, making it nearly impossible for us to hold any hope of reunion."
Medicine Horn was one of the lucky ones. Though she was taken from her family at age 2 1/2, she was able to find her birth mother through a letter to the editor of the Lakota Times
