In Australia, we had something called the Stolen Generation where mixed race indigenous Australians children were taken from their mothers and placed into foster care.
The idea being that Indigenous Australians were dying out for “unknown reasons”, so if they take those kids away from Indigenous families and “integrate” them with white Aussies, they will eventually breed and their descendants will get the brown tone wiped out and get something white enough to fit in to white Australia. This was a government practice all the way up until the 1970s.
The Oliver book has an indigenous foster child character who gets abducted.
In Australia, we had something called the Stolen Generation where mixed race indigenous Australians children were taken from their mothers and placed into foster care.
The idea being that Indigenous Australians were dying out for “unknown reasons”, so if they take those kids away from Indigenous families and “integrate” them with white Aussies, they will eventually breed and their descendants will get the brown tone wiped out and get something white enough to fit in to white Australia. This was a government practice all the way up until the 1970s.
The Oliver book has an indigenous foster child character who gets abducted.
I was familiar with the the stolen generation/residential schools type of thing, but I was unaware the the child in Oliver’s book is indigenous.