by Alex Wolff | Feb 7, 2022 | News
After years of work by impacted families, advocates, and others, the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was passed in 1978. Federal ICWA decreased rates of forced family separations and mandated that states honor the sovereignty of Indian nations. ICWA is...
by Alex Wolff | Jan 25, 2022 | News
As the Canadian government pays out billions of dollars in reparations to Indigenous families torn apart by foster care, a case up for consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court threatens to strip legal protections from U.S.-born Native American children, families and...
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...
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