by Alex Wolff | Sep 30, 2021 | News
Nowhere is the contrast between good tribal governance and failed state government more glaring than in the federal lawsuit over the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act. In Texas, the state child foster care system is a human rights calamity, where the...
by Alex Wolff | Sep 24, 2021 | News
Tribes and advocates argue ICWA is culturally and politically based, not race-based because tribal nations have political status as sovereign governments under federal law. Cherokee Nation Deputy Attorney General Chrissi Nimmo said the tribe will put all the resources...
by Alex Wolff | Sep 13, 2021 | News
Should the Supreme Court hear the case, its decision would not impact the Brackeens or their adopted children, but could determine the fate of future American Indian children in the foster system, and upend the ICWA process that has existed for decades. “Our tribes...
by Alex Wolff | Sep 9, 2021 | News
The DOI said in its Friday petition for a writ of certiorari that state courts have repeatedly rejected challenges to ICWA’s constitutionality since its 1978 enactment and cited how even though ICWA has helped prevent Native children from being taken away from...
by Alex Wolff | Sep 3, 2021 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, four tribes and the United States Solicitor General filed cert petitions with the U.S. Supreme Court in Brackeen v. Haaland, defending the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and its constitutionality. Cherokee Nation...
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