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

From Sterling Harjo and Taiko YTT, this first of its kind, Indigenous Creative Team,

tells a story that invites audiences into a surprisingly familiar and funny world.

Reservation Dogs, now streaming exclusively FX on Hulu.

The stories we're sharing this season touch on different kinds of trauma.

Please take care of yourself while you listen. Chad and Jennifer Brackene are the lead plaintiffs

in the big federal lawsuit we're following this season, but they're not the only ones.

Because of where Chad and Jennifer live, they provided the perfect venue for the case,

but their lawyer still needed the perfect plaintiffs, foster parents, who unlike the

Brackene's didn't have an easy time getting around Iqua, and he found them in Danielle and Jason

Clifford. Danielle and Jason met a dance class, a salsa dance class at their church.

Before they even got married, they talked about adoption, so when they found out they couldn't

have children of their own, it felt like God's way of telling them to adopt.

Jason is white. Danielle has Indigenous ancestry from Canada, but doesn't identify herself as

Indigenous in federal court documents. They knew about private and even international adoption,

but they wanted to help children in their own community, so they decided to become foster to

adopt parents where they lived in Hanepin County, Minnesota, meaning they would foster children with

the hope of adopting them. At the same time, a toddler who will call Piper was growing up in Minneapolis,

the biggest city in Hanepin County. Piper was close with her mom and her dad, but the person

really raising her was her grandma. My name is Robin. Robin is a citizen of white earth nation.

We're just using her first name to protect her family's privacy. When she was first born,

she came and lived with me and my daughter. And what was she like as a baby?

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