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...
by Alex Wolff | Oct 14, 2021 | News
The tribes and organizations wrote that the law’s “careful, narrowly tailored minimum federal standards have proven crucial for the protection of Indian children and the preservation of their relationship with their families and tribes.” The tribes...
by Alex Wolff | Oct 14, 2021 | Press Release
In response to the amicus briefs filed before the U.S. Supreme Court on Brackeen v. Haaland, the Protect Indian Kids member tribes issued the following statement: “The amicus briefs filed before the Supreme Court demonstrate the broad and bipartisan support for the...
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