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  • ...re separated out and educated to become members of the Ruling Institution, or bureaucrats. ...eenth century the Janissaries had become extremely powerful and could make or depose Sultans at will. Moslems also began to be admitted as Janissaries, a
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  • ...ey were sent by boat to England and safety. Many never saw their homelands or their parents again; about 80% were orphaned by the Holocaust. ...everton, has kept track of the later progress of the children. There is an international organization for the children, [[Reunion]] of Kindertransport, and also nat
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...iously as bank clerk, farm laborer and teacher, before going to sea at 19 (or 18). [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • ...nesty in business, as whites were normally considered to be split-tongued, or deceivers). [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • ...ra was the son of a Jewish family in Bologna, [[Italy]]. When he was five (or a baby, sources differ) he became very ill and his illiterate nurse, a Cath In June 1858, when he was six or seven years old Papal gendarmes forcibly removed him from his birth family
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or Shoah, in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire Jewi ...ldren were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until afte
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  • ...tely acculturated, eventually became a chief himself, before being rescued or escaping. ...ow O'Connell got to Ponape originally, there is no doubt about the tattoos or the extent of his knowledge of the island.
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Adoptees/fosterees Who Are or Were Also Birth Parents]]
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  • ...devotion to the ways and welfare of Native Americans has led to his formal adoption into at least four families of the Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux and Crow people, [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...ompared with the award of the freedom of a city. It is not the same as the adoption of captives. This directory contains three representative examples of honor
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...tted by all sides, and of course, by the obscenity which was the Holocaust or [[Shoah]], in which the Nazis attempted to exterminate not only the entire ...ldren were taken home by their mothers to be raised; some were [[adopted]] or fostered by German families; others remained in children's homes until afte
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  • ...e could be transported (a type of banishment or exile), usually to America or [[Australia]]. [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • During his imprisonment he was awarded several international awards for peace. Myre, Greg. "Israeli Scientist Asserts He's Proud of His Acts." International Herald Tribune Online, 22 April 2004. Available at: www.iht.com/articles/51
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  • ...unusual for adults to be [[adopted]] as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. ...ompared with the award of the freedom of a city. It is not the same as the adoption of captives. This directory contains three representative examples of honor
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] ...y: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...purpose; often two tribes would raid each other for [[captives]] for years or centuries. The European and Arab enslavement of Black Africans is undoubted ...he 1630s epidemics alone, mourning wars led in some areas to quite amazing adoption rates: some missionaries in the 1660s estimated that over 60% of the popula
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  • ...1825, was the nephew of the great Seminole Chief Osceola. When he was nine or 10 (in 1835) his father died after a drunken brawl in St. Augustine, [[Flor [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • ...oe]] was an Algonquian Indian, captured as a youth by the British (in 1636 or 1637). He became a servant of a British officer, Richard Collicot, where he [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Estrangement from Adoptive or Foster Family]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • ...war casualty, and in some societies had to become completely acculturated or be killed. Such adoptees were often adults when captured, but could be smal [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • Eifion, Alltud. John Ystumllyn or Jack Black: The Story of His Life and Tales About Him ... (Criccieth: D. Tr [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] ...y: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • "Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African: A Short Biography." [Includes portraits]. Avai [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • ...reate his own wife. In the late 1760s he [[adopted]] two unrelated orphans or foundlings, whom he named Sabrina Sidney and Lucretia, then aged 11 and 12. [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] ...y: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Birth or Infancy]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • ...born into slavery are separated from their families by sale of the parents or children to others. They are grossly mistreated, emotionally abused, and in ...ut, loaned out, bought up, brought back, stored up, mortgaged, won, stolen or seized. So Baby's eight children had six fathers. What she called the nasti
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Ethnic or Religious Identity Confused or Concealed, Racism]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: War or Persecution]]
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  • Media House [[International]]. "Phillis Wheatley: Precursor of American Abolitionism." Available at: ww [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: For Companionship, or for Charitable Motives]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Captured by Another Tribe or Group]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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  • Long Lance (born Sylvester Long) claimed to be a Blackfoot or Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot a [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] ...y: Trans-Racial, Trans-Tribal, International or Trans-Cultural Adoption or Fostering]]
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  • [[Category: Adoption Celebrities]] [[Category: Exile or Persecution (religious, Political or Social)]]
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