by Alex Wolff | Jan 18, 2022 | News
In the 1950s and ’60s, about one half of Native children in the U.S. were wholly or partly raised in boarding schools, foster or adoptive placements, or were simply not born to women sterilized in government hospitals. Limiting births and removing children is...
by Alex Wolff | Jan 11, 2022 | News
The ICWA is considered the gold standard of child welfare laws and establishes a process that promotes efforts to keep children connected to their families, communities and heritage. There’s a reason those who know the ICWA best — from child welfare experts to tribes...
by Alex Wolff | Dec 8, 2021 | Press Release
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, four tribes filed briefs (1 & 2) with the U.S. Supreme Court in Brackeen v. Haaland, denouncing the latest attempts to overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and defending the law’s constitutionality. Cherokee Nation Principal Chief...
by Alex Wolff | Nov 1, 2021 | News
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) has been a federal law for more than four decades to keep Native children up for adoption in households with similar cultural backgrounds. But the measure is now facing what could be its strongest threat in the Supreme Court. Tribal...
by Alex Wolff | Oct 26, 2021 | News
A federal law to protect Native families from being separated is on a likely path to the U.S. Supreme Court, where the 41-year-old law could be upended — threatening tribal sovereignty. And while child welfare is the specific issue at the heart of the case, tribal...
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