If you’re following the #BringChanelHome ICWA case developing in Alaska, and would like to read up on some cases that will shed light, please check my 7-part series on Academia. #ICWA #nativeamerican #humantrafficking #sovereignty #indigenousrights #Alaska #childtrafficking #citizenship https://schooling.academia.edu

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#BringChanelHome #AdoptionTrafficking #LegalKidnapping #AdoptionIsTrauma #FamilyPreservation #FamilyReunification #ICWA #SiblingSeparations #KinshipCare #TribalSovereignty #at-risk #CINA #ALASKA #Native #NativeYouth

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Protect Native Children at the State Level!

In an enormous victory for tribal children, families, and sovereignty, the #SupremeCourt has rendered a decision fully preserving the Indian Child Welfare Act (#ICWA)! Still, let's tell our representatives to codify ICWA’s protections at the state level. Never again should any Native child anywhere be in danger of removal from their family and culture.

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/icwa-states

I cannot recommend enough the #ThisLand #podcast from #RebeccaNagle at #CrookedMedia to anyone who wants to better understand how #NativeAmericans have been and continue to be oppressed in the US. They certainly didn't teach me any of this in school. At the very least, the most recent episode, explaining the recent #SCOTUS decision about the Indian Child Welfare Act (#ICWA), is well worth a listen.
https://crooked.com/podcast-series/this-land/#all-episodes

"This is an absolutely massive opinion on multiple fronts."

"I cannot emphasize enough what a huge win this ruling is for Native children, #Native families and the future of Native peoples."

"This is true justice and culturally affirming."

"This is both a massive and minuscule decision."

Federal Indian law experts respond to the #SCOTUS #ICWA ruling:

https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-law-the-supreme-court-upheld-icwa-now-what

The Supreme Court Upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Long Struggle to Implement the Law Continues.
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A recent ProPublica investigation showed how #ICWA was being unevenly applied in some states, breaking up #NativeAmerican #families that should have received additional protections under the law. There’s still room for improvement, advocates say.

New, by @lussenpop

#Parents #Children #Kids #SouthDakota #SCOTUS #SupremeCourt

https://www.propublica.org/article/scotus-icwa-decision-questions-native-american-families?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

Greg Ablavsky takes down Justice Thomas' flawed #Originalism (and Thomas' hate-footnote trying to rebut Greg's fabulous work) in his Haaland v. Brackeen dissent.

Kinda sad when the best support for your theories is your own dissents & concurrences, plus a 20 yr old article in the Denver L. Review, but that's what happens when you start with results then try to make the history fit later.
#Law #LawFedi #SCOTUS #Brackeen #ICWA #HIstory #Indigenous
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/06/clarence-thomas-indian-law-originalism-history.html

by #JuliaLurie in #MotherJones:

"The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, the landmark 1978 legislation aimed at preventing Native foster children and adoptees from being separated from their families and tribes. The ruling in Haaland v. Brackeen represents a victory for Native tribes, who argued that the case threatened the basic tenets of Native sovereignty, and a blow to the plaintiffs—the state of Texas and three non-Native couples who wanted to adopt Native children—who argued to overturn the law based on racial discrimination and an overly intrusive federal government."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/native-icwa-brackeen-haaland-supreme-court-sovereignty/

#NativeAmericans #Native #Indigenous #sovereignty #Texas #SupremeCourt #SCOTUS #FosterChildren #adoptees #children #ChildWelfare #ICWA

But man do we ever have a long way to go. I invite others to sign up at https://idlenomore.ca/action-sign-up/ to help #IdleNoMore in its current campaigns #ICWA #wearestillhere

"The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected a major challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, upholding a landmark law long hailed by tribes for giving priority to Native American families in the adoption of Native children.

The state of Texas and a group of non-Native foster parents had challenged the preferences as an infringement on state authority in child welfare policy and unlawful discrimination on the basis of race."

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/supreme-court-upholds-law-giving-native-american-families/story?id=100109064&_hsmi=262755527&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9TMHGzs2nwfFS9xcjVQzUxfxbUP-G15psAWPybWYlszD_zDFxIBMiipJ1yQvjsY85BsS6B2W5TNI2T4E8BEzFcZw9syQ

#ICWA #indigenous #sovereignty

Update: #ICWA was upheld in its entirety 7-2 today. I definitely wasn't expecting that. Great news!

I am so relieved.
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/wa-tribes-celebrate-as-supreme-court-upholds-native-child-welfare-law/
#SCOTUS #ICWA #Nativesovereignty

YES! The Indian Child Welfare Act #ICWA remains intact. Thank you to everyone who has been fighting for this. Occasionally #SCOTUS will make the right call—especially when we put the pressure on. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZT81cA9ku/

By a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact

The court upheld the law's preferences for Native tribes when American Indian children are adopted, ruling that the law does not impermissibly impose a federal mandate on traditionally state-regulated areas of power. (Alito & Thomas dissented)

#Law #LawFedi #ICWA #SCOTUS #JuvenileLaw #ChildWelfare #Fostering #Adoption #ConLaw

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182121455/indian-child-welfare-act-supreme-court-decision

By a 7-2 vote, the Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact

The court upheld the law's preferences for Native tribes when American Indian children are adopted, ruling that the law does not impermissibly impose a federal mandate on traditionally state-regulated areas of power. (Alito & Thomas dissented)

#Law #LawFedi #ICWA #SCOTUS #JuvenileLaw #ChildWelfare #Fostering #Adoption #ConLaw

https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182121455/indian-child-welfare-act-supreme-court-decision

More #GoodNews from #SCOTUS:

https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-native-american-children-adoption-8eee3db1e97cee84a7fdcd98d43df795

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jun/15/supreme-court-native-american-adoption-haaland-brackeen

As @dankennedy_nu succinctly points out, however, don't get too used to it (i.e., good news from this manifestation of the Supreme Court) — https://journa.host/@dankennedy_nu/110548898318406543
#ICWA

Gorsuch concurrence is something else--this is inside federal Indian law baseball, but he describes Kagama with its extraconstitutional plenary power as a wrong turn from which federal Indian law is recovering & argues plenary power does not permit abrogation of tribal sovereignty. That goes beyond even what J Thurgood Marshall wrote. #Brackeen #ICWA #Law

YES!!! SCOTUS upholds #ICWA! Native Sovereignty remains intact! https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-affirms-indian-child-152141267.html

@quawzilla @Yehuda @IndigenousFoodSov @indigenous_commentator

Justice Barrett's #Brackeen opinion also makes a subtle plug for the importance of precedent over claims to textual originalism: Petitioners "frame their arguments as if the slate were clean. More than two centuries in, it is anything but." #ICWA #Law

Leaders of the four tribes at the heart of the case, issued a statement: "Today, the Supreme Court once again ruled that ICWA, heralded as the gold standard in child welfare for over 40 years, is constitutional. Today’s decision is a major victory for Native tribes, children, and the future of our culture and heritage.
Reports Deb Krol
#ICWA #indigenous

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/arizona/2023/06/15/supreme-court-upholds-indian-child-welfare-act-affirms-rights/70314342007/