This episode is supported by the FX original series Reservation Dogs.

From Sterling Harjo and Taiko YTT, Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy that follows the adventures of four indigenous teens in rural Oklahoma.

Reservation Dogs, now streaming exclusively FX on Hulu.

Just to know before we get started.

The stories we're sharing this season touch on different kinds of trauma. Please take care of yourself while you listen.

In the sprawling lawsuit that pits foster families against native families and tribes against states,

there is actually one point that everyone agrees on.

That the history of native families being separated is tragic.

It's a history that people who are still alive today survived. People like Sandy Whitehawk.

I'm a Takiyapi, Chante Washidae, and Napa Chiyuzapi.

Lakota Miyah, Chokatana Jibuya, Sucangola, Kota Himataha.

Greetings relatives. My name is Sandy Whitehawk.

My Lakota name stands in the center of women.

And I come from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota.

Growing up on the Rosebud Reservation in the 1950s, kids knew to hide when strange cars came up the driveway.

I've heard people say, yeah, we had a drill in our house that if a car drove up the driveway,

we knew that it would be somebody from the government or social worker or something.

But one day, Sandy wasn't fast enough.

I remember one of my uncles saying that he remembers the day that the social worker came and got me

drove into the driveway and I was totalling around and they were all sitting around the

the house as far as I know that's how it was told to me.

And she just simply got out of the car, scooped me up and put me in the car.

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