In a recent article published on Indian Country Today Media Network Trace A. DeMeyer, a Shawnee-Cherokee author and journalist, shares her experience of being adopted out of her Native American roots and documents the historical context leading up to the "Baby Veronica" custody battle that is currently being fought. The case is being fought in the South Carolina Supreme Court between the Cherokee father of four-year old Veronica Rose and Veronica's adoptive parents. Veronica was adopted without Brown's consent, and according to DeMeyer, this practice follows the precedent established by the Indian Adoption Project, in which children with Native American fathers and non-Native American mothers were adopted without the knowledge of the father. DeMeyer herself was one of thousands of Native American children adopted out of tribal lands and heritage in the 1960's and 1970's. In the article, DeMeyer states a missionary school objective of "kill the Indian to save the child" as the guiding principle that justified taking thousands of Native American children from fathers without consent. DeMeyer asserts publicaly available data shows that Native children are once again being targeted for removal from their communities. According to DeMeyer, these practices are on the rise due to a low availability of children for the adoption industry and the missionary efforts of certain faith-based organizations. In addition to referencing publicly available data about adoption, DeMeyer points out facts from the Baby Veronica case that support her assertion. Adoption lawyers of the Christian based adoption non-profit Nightlight Christian Adoptions attempted to conceal Veronica's father's status as a citizen of the Cherokee Nation when filing the adoption paperwork, according to the original South Carolina Supreme Court decision in the case. The article state's that the intentional errors in the adoption paperwork were an attempt to circumvent the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which was enacted to put an end to Indian Adoption Project practice of taking children from Native families without consent. If the paperwork had been filed without errors, Veronica's father, Dusten Brown, would have been notified before the adoption process started. Instead, Dusten Brown was notified four months after Veronica's adoption, immediately before being deployed to Iraq with the United States Army. The article published by Indian Country Today Media Network attempts to bring to light facts that about the case that have only recently been made publicly available, as well as tie the news story with a personal account and historical data. The author, Trace A. DeMeyer is the author of a two books concerning adopted Native children and a blog on the same topic.