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

From Sterling Harjo and Taiko ITT, 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. The stories we're sharing this season touch on different kinds of trauma.

Please take care of yourself while you listen. In the past few episodes, we've met some of the

foster parents and states who make up the federal lawsuit, Brackene V Holland. And that lawsuit

wouldn't exist without them, but it also wouldn't exist without the special interest groups that

are working behind the scenes. Our investigation followed the money and found three main groups behind

the attack on Iqua, corporate lawyers, right-wing funding, and private adoption attorneys.

This episode we're starting with the adoption attorneys because they've been fighting Iqua

longer than anyone else. For decades, Native leaders have accused the adoption industry of not

following Iqua, of not following the law, but most adoption cases are private, so it's hard to

know what's really going on. We were trying to find a way inside when a background source told

me about this couple, an adoptive couple who were willing to talk. If you were to rewind to two

years ago, we probably also were thinking that it's like a parent who doesn't want to

doesn't want to raise the child and then you have a family that wants to have a child and it feels

like that's the win-win that they're describing. But you know, I think now we feel a lot more,

we feel like it's a lot more complicated than that. This couple who will call Jamie and Todd

really wanted their first child to have a sibling, but a year and a half after their son was born,

Jamie was still recovering from birth injuries, so they decided to grow their family through adoption.

Once they got through the paperwork, the home study, and the upfront fees, they started getting

emails with profiles of pregnant people, and they noticed something strange. Jamie and Todd

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