On June 15, tribes across California and the nation will mark the second annual ICWA Day, a moment to celebrate the historic 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overwhelmingly affirmed the ...
The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a decades-old federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native children. In a 7-2 ruling, the ...
WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools that were set up by the U.S. government for the purpose of erasing their ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo/NICWA) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday to American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians for the ...
The justices rejected a broad attack from Republican-led states and white families who argued that the system is based on race. File photo: The Supreme Court has preserved the system that gives ...
In 2016 Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, a white, evangelical couple from Fort Worth, began fostering a Navajo and Cherokee boy. After they petitioned to adopt him the following year, a judge in Texas ...
The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a ...
The Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act. The case involved a challenge to the law, which gives priority to Native tribes when Native children are adopted. Today, in a 7-2 vote, ...
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Editor's note: This is the second piece of a six-installment series about Native American children in South Dakota's foster care system, produced in partnership between the Argus Leader and South ...
Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a horrendous report showing that at least 900 Native American children died in the care of U.S. boarding schools — facilities they were forced ...