Jad Abumrad (host) / main Radiolab host voice
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
He lives in Long Island now, which is where I visited him.
But in 1967... The fall of 67, I was on the staff of the Association on American Indian Affairs.
sort of a legal advocacy group for American Indians.
And he traveled all over, working with different tribes.
One day, he gets a phone call from this guy, Lewis Goodhouse.
The tribal chair of the Devil's Lake Sioux tribe in North Dakota.
And this guy says, I really need your help.
A devil's late kid, one of ours, that was just abruptly taken away by social workers.
What was their stated reason for taking Ivan away?
No, actually, Bird says that the social workers were looking for that classic nuclear family.
Biological mother, biological father, children.
So when they saw him with an older relative, but no mom or dad, they thought, uh-oh.