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Native Families' Right to Stay Together is at Stake at the Supreme ...

The Indian Child Welfare Act — a law that protects Native children from forced removal from their families, tribes, and culture — is currently ...

States Enact ICWA-Type Laws to Stem Separation of Native Families

With the Indian Child Welfare Act facing a Supreme Court challenge, states have enacted their own versions to protect Indigenous families ...

In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a Law Stands ...

For generations, Native American children were removed from their homes and placed with white families. A recent Supreme Court ruling ...

Transcript: In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a ...

... In the Long Fight to Protect Native American Families, a Law Stands Guard ... Families, a Law Stands Guard. by andrew July 7, 2023 January 26, 2024 ...

Sovereignty under attack - Native Governance Center

Lawmakers finally passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978 to protect Native children and families. A gold standard in child welfare policy.

Supreme Court Upholds Indian Child Welfare Act

Unlike the federal law, New Mexico's Indian Family Protection Act requires the state to notify tribes within 24 hours of any child welfare ...

Strengthening the Indian Child Welfare Act

The DOI Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is working to promote the consistent application of ICWA and protect Indian children, families, and Tribes. The HHS ...

Why Are Right-Wing Groups Targeting a Law Aimed at Protecting ...

Why Are Right-Wing Groups Targeting a Law Aimed at Protecting Native Families? · The Indian Child Welfare Act set out to fix generations of harm ...

Tribal Child Welfare Systems and Self-Determination

... Native children from their families.[8] When Congress finally acted, it vowed to safeguard Native children from further injury and ...

The Indian Child Welfare Act: Preserving Families Is in Children's ...

ICWA requires due process protections for Native parents and tribes, including notice of a child protection case. The law tells courts to prefer ...

Native American children's protection against adoption by non ...

The case threatens to reverse the social and health benefits experienced by Native children when raised in their tribal cultures.

Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act, citing Sovereignty ...

This decision reinforced the legal principle that Native American tribes are sovereign nations with the right to govern themselves and protect ...

Protect ICWA – CWLA

The Campaign works to serve and support Native children, youth, and families through upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act.

Minnesota moves to protect Native children as Supreme Court ...

A case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court could affect how American Indian children are treated in the foster care system.

Protecting the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)

ICWA was put into law to protect the healing from generations of family separation that targeted Native peoples, and specifically children.

Indian Child Welfare Act experts say state statutes could protect ...

Cherokee Nation Deputy Attorney General Chrissi Nimmo said state ICWA statutes can further protect Indigenous children and their families if ...

Indian Child Welfare Act - Wikipedia

§§ 1901–1963) is a United States federal law that governs jurisdiction over the removal of American Indian children from their families in custody, foster care ...

Protect ICWA - RALLY

For 40 years, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) has protected American Indian and Alaska Native children in child welfare proceedings by keeping them with ...

Take Action to Protect Protect Native Children at the State Level!

In an enormous victory for tribal children, families, and sovereignty, the Supreme Court has rendered a decision fully preserving the Indian Child Welfare ...

Laws that protect indigenous families - We R Native

National Indian Child Welfare Association · Bureau of Indian Affairs. Hope this helps! Aunty Manda. See more from Auntie Manda.