by Alex Wolff | Jun 19, 2019 | News
Members of Native American tribes like my own across the country are near unified in our disappointment in those who attack one of the nation’s most important child welfare laws, the Indian Child Welfare Act. As you report, the act has been integral to Native American...
by Alex Wolff | Jun 8, 2019 | News
Kim and Carney, who met as teenagers, both grew up in Adair County, in the heart of Cherokee Nation, with a population that is about 45 percent Native and has the country’s biggest percentage of Cherokee speakers. Drawings of Cherokee creation myths by Shace, their...
by Alex Wolff | Jun 5, 2019 | News
The 1978 act reinforced guardrails to prevent social workers from reflexively removing Indian children and judges from terminating parental rights. No national databank tracks the law’s cases. Indian children still enter foster care at disproportionately high rates....
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