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Indian Child Welfare Act attacks are a threat to tribes #ICWA
click: Indian Child Welfare Act attacks are a threat to tribes
High Country News
This week,
High Country News published
a story by reporter Allison Herrera detailing a conservative think tank’s efforts to dismantle the
Indian Child Welfare Act,
an adoption law that turns 40 this year. The 1978 act was created to
prevent the separation of Native children from their families and
communities through adoptions, to “protect the best interests of Indian
children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and
families.”
...
Groups like the Goldwater Institute that push for the elimination of
ICWA are, intentionally or not, contributing to the continued attack on
Native existence.
Such groups have attempted to capitalize on misinformation and stereotypes
as a way to undermine ICWA. But ignoring the rights of tribes as both
governments and as peoples to protect their culture not only ignores
sovereignty, an all-too-common practice these days, it also overlooks,
quite callously, generations of historical trauma.
Note from Trace Hentz
I am so grateful to Graham for writing this article and interviewing me and others on the topic of ICWA and keeping adoptees in the news. When I spoke to him, it hit me that I wrote the article for Indian Country Today in 2013 and very little has changed. other than Goldwater trying to end the important much-needed federal law Indian Child Welfare Act.
To Veronica Brown
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The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
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