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Tetrachloride

(7,948 posts) Mon Nov 14, 2022, 12:19 PM Nov 2022

Indian Child Welfare Act at the Supreme Court

https://boingboing.net/2022/11/14/indian-child-welfare-act-before-the-supreme-court.html

The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments about the Indian Child Welfare Act last week. Though the surface issue is adoption, this case concerns indigenous ways of knowing and living, i.e., sovereignty and self-determination, identity, and the relationship between Indigenous Nations and the United States. The podcast This Land, Season 2, digs deep into the larger historical and political contexts of the issues about ICWA.

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A past friend may be part of the legal team.

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Indian Child Welfare Act at the Supreme Court (Original Post) Tetrachloride Nov 2022 OP

Thanks - cilla4progress Nov 2022 #1

Hope the Supremes do the right thing here Bayard Nov 2022 #2

cilla4progress

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Reply to Tetrachloride (Original post)

Mon Nov 14, 2022, 12:32 PM

Nov 2022

Always up for a good podcast rec!

I work and have worked in an arena where ICWA is implicated. Will be very pissed if this racist Supreme Court chips away at hard fought tribal sovereignty after so many years of efforts!!

Bayard

(22,327 posts)

2. Hope the Supremes do the right thing here

Reply to Tetrachloride (Original post)

Mon Nov 14, 2022, 01:08 PM

Nov 2022

We must protect and preserve Indigenous rights.

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