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Paper discusses eugenics policies brought against Native Americans as explored in the young adult novel Hidden Roots.
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Abstract: Between 1880 and 1981, thirty-one states, with the backing of the U.S. Government, legalized programs designed to decrease or eradicate the Native American population. The state of Vermont was the twenty-seventh state to ratify such legislation, designed to keep the state “racially pure” and to remove the existence of the Abenaki Tribe and any impure (mixed race) bloodlines. This is a history that the United States government would like to keep hidden and out of conversation. Abenaki author Joseph Bruchac’s young-adult book Hidden Roots brings this taboo subject to light, much like Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston’s Farewell to Manzanar explored the topic of World War II Japanese Internment Camps. The current study, as well, seeks to inspire full exposure of a subject that many Americans would rather keep hidden.
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