Irene Uncarrow, the biological mother of the baby was seen drunk in a bar while the baby was left inside the car in Beaumont. Similar to the author’s real-life story, this fiction novel narrates the story of the Twitchell family from Uintah Basin, Utah who adopted a five-month-old American Indian baby named Chipeta in 1975. This caused a lot of problems because the tradition and language were soon forgotten once they were raised by those who are not American Indians hence the Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) of 1978 to be able to protect and maintain the culture of the tribe/s. As stated in the author’s note, before 1978, the government took away neglected or abused children from the Native Indians they were cared for and even adopted by non-Indian families. The author, Sharlee Glenn, of Beyond the Green based the story from her personal experience when their family temporarily adopted, Gina, a five-month-old American Indian.
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