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Say Brother; Native American Foster Care; Indian Child Welfare Act
Part of Say Brother.
03/31/1978
In this clip Pam Colorado, social worker and Ph.D., candidate at Brandeis University, talks to Barbara Barrow about the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. Overall the program focuses on foster care in Massachusetts with an emphasis on the proper placement of Native American children. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with guests Pam Colorado (a social worker and Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis), Kevin Brown (a Child Welfare Development Specialist for the Department of Public Welfare, Boston), Linda Lappen (a Co-supervisor for the Home Finding Unit of Boston's Welfare Department), and Suzanne Letendre (Director of the Foster Care Program at the Boston Indian Council) to discuss if it matters if a child is not placed within their family unit, if there a need for placement within a family of the same cultural background as the child's, the process by which children are placed with families, if relatives or foster families of the same ethnic background are always considered first, the problems facing Native Americans in terms of developing foster care programs, and whether or not the inability to place a child with the same ethnic group threatens the survival of a culture as a whole. Program includes previously filmed interviews with each of the guests, as well as Native American young adults who were raised by non-Native American families. Program includes a "Third World Connection" segment (in which theories related to the original inhabitants of North America are discussed) and "man on the street" interviews conducted by Barrow-Murray to assess whether or not the "average" person feels it is a problem when minority children are adopted by white families. Produced by Barbara Barrow-Murray. Directed by David Atwood.
License Clip
- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Native American Foster Care
- Program Number
823
- Title
Indian Child Welfare Act
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program focuses on foster care in Massachusetts with an emphasis on the proper placement of Native American children. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with guests Pam Colorado (a social worker and Ph.D. candidate at Brandeis), Kevin Brown (a Child Welfare Development Specialist for the Department of Public Welfare, Boston), Linda Lappen (a Co-supervisor for the Home Finding Unit of Boston's Welfare Department), and Suzanne Letendre (Director of the Foster Care Program at the Boston Indian Council) to discuss if it matters if a child is not placed within their family unit, if there a need for placement within a family of the same cultural background as the child's, the process by which children are placed with families, if relatives or foster families of the same ethnic background are always considered first, the problems facing Native Americans in terms of developing foster care programs, and whether or not the inability to place a child with the same ethnic group threatens the survival of a culture as a whole. Program includes previously filmed interviews with each of the guests, as well as Native American young adults who were raised by non-Native American families. Program includes a "Third World Connection" segment (in which theories related to the original inhabitants of North America are discussed) and "man on the street" interviews conducted by Barrow-Murray to assess whether or not the "average" person feels it is a problem when minority children are adopted by white families.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Indians of North America--Massachusetts
- Boston (Mass.). Public Welfare Dept.
- Colorado, Pam
- Boston Indian Council (Boston, Mass.)
- Indigenous peoples
- United States. Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978
- Brown, Kevin
- Letendre, Suzanne
- Lappen, Linda
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Producer)
- Atwood, David (Director)
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- Contributors
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant Director)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Coleman, Vern (Audio)
- Hill, Rebecca (Fashion Consultant)
- Rivera, George (Production Assistant)
- St. Onge, David (Videotape Recordist)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Fairweather, Bill (Video)
- Norton, Chas (Lighting Assistant)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Morton, Wil (Audio)
- Harrison, Rich (Video)
- Smith, Lee (Camera)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- LaBillois, Ann (Intern)
- Sullivan, John L. (Lighting Director)
- Lewis, Webster (Theme Music)
- Chigas, Bail (Assistant Cameraman)
- Demers, Leo (Videotape Recordist)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- Buccheru, Ron (Switcher)
- LeCain, Larry (Camera)
- Wareham, Skip (Camera)
- DeVitt, Doug (Videotape Recordist)
- Clark, Marvin (Intern)
- Johnson, Nat (Audio)
- White, Conrad (Stage Manager)
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Crane, David (Videotape Recordist)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Native American Foster Care; Indian Child Welfare Act,” 03/31/1978, GBH Archives, accessed April 20, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_94AB3D862C544679872CF1FE731DA924.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Native American Foster Care; Indian Child Welfare Act.” 03/31/1978. GBH Archives. Web. April 20, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_94AB3D862C544679872CF1FE731DA924>.
- APA: Say Brother; Native American Foster Care; Indian Child Welfare Act. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_94AB3D862C544679872CF1FE731DA924