by Alex Wolff | Nov 29, 2022 | News
The Supreme Court has long recognized that federal regulation of Native American affairs is based on permissible political classifications rather than impermissible racial ones. Nevertheless, the challengers seek to impose broad limits on the circumstances in which a...
by Alex Wolff | Nov 21, 2022 | News
Supreme Court case Haaland v. Brackeen could overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act and strike at the very heart of Native American sovereignty. Deputy Attorney General at Cherokee Nation Chrissi Nimmo discusses how the overturning could affect Native American...
by Alex Wolff | Nov 21, 2022 | News
Recognizing that the continued existence of Tribal Nations was at stake because of the loss of up to 35% of their children, Congress outlawed this practice in 1978 with the passage of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). At the time, placement with White families was...
by Alex Wolff | Nov 21, 2022 | News
ICWA was passed by Congress to keep American Indian families together whenever possible at a time when as many as 1 in 3 Native kids were being taken from their parents. In addition to preferencing kin and tribal members in the adoption of American Indian children, it...
by Alex Wolff | Nov 20, 2022 | News
Charles Martin, tribal chairman of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians in Cabazon, was one of five tribal leaders paying close attention to arguments before the Supreme Court in recent days, and expressing his tribe’s support to defend the Indian Child Welfare Act...
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