The Fourth World
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 60660 words.
Published on May 19, 2013. Fiction.
Two teenage girls bond over the absence of their fathers.
Location: United States
Member Since: Sep. 22, 2012
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Rose Christo
Biography
--- AN UPDATE FROM THE LAKOTA PEOPLE'S LAW PROJECT ---
Congress is going to meet with tribal authorities on May 15, 16, and 17 in Rapid City, South Dakota to address the 5,000+ Native American children who have been unlawfully kidnapped by foster care in 32 different states.
Is this progress? You bet! Previously, Congress had refused a summit for over a YEAR.
In 32 out of 50 states, 700 Native American children are taken from their homes by social services every year without reason. Those children are then moved into foster care, where each child earns the agency $150,000 just by being there. The government's goal is to get those children adopted, because adoption means an extra $12,000 per child. Why is this a problem? Because in only 3% of these removals was the child noted as having been abused physically, sexually, nutritionally, or in some other way by his or her natural parents... In other words, 97% of these families are being shattered for no reason but the government's greed!
The tribes are fighting back. The Lakota people are leading the battle against Washington to recover more than 5,000 Native American children who were removed unlawfully from their homes--some 2,000 of whom have completely disappeared without a trace.
The battle is not over yet...
---
Thank you. Yes, you. You know who you are. You are the people who have signed petition after petition and kept this issue current. Support has poured in from all over the country for these children. I have never seen anything like it. Thank you so much. These children deserve to come home--and they will!!
Congress is going to meet with tribal authorities on May 15, 16, and 17 in Rapid City, South Dakota to address the 5,000+ Native American children who have been unlawfully kidnapped by foster care in 32 different states.
Is this progress? You bet! Previously, Congress had refused a summit for over a YEAR.
In 32 out of 50 states, 700 Native American children are taken from their homes by social services every year without reason. Those children are then moved into foster care, where each child earns the agency $150,000 just by being there. The government's goal is to get those children adopted, because adoption means an extra $12,000 per child. Why is this a problem? Because in only 3% of these removals was the child noted as having been abused physically, sexually, nutritionally, or in some other way by his or her natural parents... In other words, 97% of these families are being shattered for no reason but the government's greed!
The tribes are fighting back. The Lakota people are leading the battle against Washington to recover more than 5,000 Native American children who were removed unlawfully from their homes--some 2,000 of whom have completely disappeared without a trace.
The battle is not over yet...
---
Thank you. Yes, you. You know who you are. You are the people who have signed petition after petition and kept this issue current. Support has poured in from all over the country for these children. I have never seen anything like it. Thank you so much. These children deserve to come home--and they will!!
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Books
White Buffalo Calf Warriors
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 72130 words. Published on April 11, 2013. Fiction.
A Native American man and an Amish man trek across Montana in search of a runaway white buffalo.
Price: $2.99 USD. 72130 words. Published on April 11, 2013. Fiction.
A Native American man and an Amish man trek across Montana in search of a runaway white buffalo.
Unborn: Three Short Stories (Unborn #2)
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 66200 words. Published on March 10, 2013. Fiction.
A companion piece to Unborn.
Price: $2.99 USD. 66200 words. Published on March 10, 2013. Fiction.
A companion piece to Unborn.
Unborn
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 61260 words. Published on February 12, 2013. Fiction.
Kerry Thompson was aborted nineteen years ago--and survived.
Price: $2.99 USD. 61260 words. Published on February 12, 2013. Fiction.
Kerry Thompson was aborted nineteen years ago--and survived.
The Place Where They Cried
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 253780 words. Published on January 11, 2013. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
The true story of two Indian chiefs who accidentally changed the face of America.
Price: $2.99 USD. 253780 words. Published on January 11, 2013. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) The true story of two Indian chiefs who accidentally changed the face of America.
Why the Star Stands Still (Gives Light #4)
by Rose Christo
Price: Free! 69210 words. Published on October 23, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Skylar's father has been in federal prison for the past fifteen years. The summer of his release coincides with familial matters of a different nature: Skylar and his husband are trying to adopt a daughter.
Price: Free! 69210 words. Published on October 23, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Skylar's father has been in federal prison for the past fifteen years. The summer of his release coincides with familial matters of a different nature: Skylar and his husband are trying to adopt a daughter.
Laughing Winds
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 62540 words. Published on October 4, 2012. Fiction.
When Annika Straum is handed a violin and told to learn how to play, Annika knows she is about to die. In Dachau Concentration Camp, music means death. Paired with a green-eyed girl, a girl who makes her feel in ways she shouldn't, Annika has three months to practice for her first and last concert.
Price: $2.99 USD. 62540 words. Published on October 4, 2012. Fiction.
When Annika Straum is handed a violin and told to learn how to play, Annika knows she is about to die. In Dachau Concentration Camp, music means death. Paired with a green-eyed girl, a girl who makes her feel in ways she shouldn't, Annika has three months to practice for her first and last concert.
Someone Else's War
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 63600 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
The Lord's Resistance Army has only one goal: A Christian Africa. A pacifistic young Muslim boy becomes enveloped in their militant agenda and learns courage, resilience, and forgiveness.
Price: $2.99 USD. 63600 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
The Lord's Resistance Army has only one goal: A Christian Africa. A pacifistic young Muslim boy becomes enveloped in their militant agenda and learns courage, resilience, and forgiveness.
St. Clair (Gives Light #3)
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 80270 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
The Supreme Court ruling on Kelo v. New London changes the face of US property laws, plunging the reservation into an insidious tug-of-war between the Bureau of Land Management and the Plains Shoshone who have called the soil home for centuries. Their parents powerless, the law their enemy, Skylar and his friends are going to have to get creative if they want to keep what's left of their land.
Price: $2.99 USD. 80270 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
The Supreme Court ruling on Kelo v. New London changes the face of US property laws, plunging the reservation into an insidious tug-of-war between the Bureau of Land Management and the Plains Shoshone who have called the soil home for centuries. Their parents powerless, the law their enemy, Skylar and his friends are going to have to get creative if they want to keep what's left of their land.
Looks Over (Gives Light #2)
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 87380 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
Newly adjusted to life on the reservation, Skylar is ready to put the past behind him--but his future is tenuous at best. Skylar is still a ward of the state, and foster care can take him away from the reservation at a moment's notice. And when Skylar stumbles across his father's best-kept, twelve-year-old secret, not even Rafael can shield him from the fallout.
Price: $2.99 USD. 87380 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) Newly adjusted to life on the reservation, Skylar is ready to put the past behind him--but his future is tenuous at best. Skylar is still a ward of the state, and foster care can take him away from the reservation at a moment's notice. And when Skylar stumbles across his father's best-kept, twelve-year-old secret, not even Rafael can shield him from the fallout.
Gives Light
by Rose Christo
Price: $2.99 USD. 80560 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
When Skylar's father mysteriously vanishes one summer afternoon, Skylar is placed in the temporary custody of his only remaining relative, an estranged grandmother living on an Indian reservation in the middle of arid Arizona. Adapting to a brand new culture is the least of Skylar's qualms. Skylar's mother was murdered eleven years ago on the reservation. Her murderer left behind a son.
Price: $2.99 USD. 80560 words. Published on September 22, 2012. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review) When Skylar's father mysteriously vanishes one summer afternoon, Skylar is placed in the temporary custody of his only remaining relative, an estranged grandmother living on an Indian reservation in the middle of arid Arizona. Adapting to a brand new culture is the least of Skylar's qualms. Skylar's mother was murdered eleven years ago on the reservation. Her murderer left behind a son.
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