Lakota People's Law Project

Each year, 90% of the 700 Lakota children taken by South Dakota's Department of Social Services are placed in non-Native foster care. Join us to end this practice now!
NPR BREAKING NEWS ON NPR! In a strong showing of solidarity, the Coalition of Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Directors in South Dakota voted 6-0 to submit a report to Congress confirming S.D.’s systematic violations of ICWA. The directors demanded that the Bureau of Indian Affairs live up to its months-old promise of hosting a summit on Native American foster care in S.D. LISTEN TO THE NPR REPORT HERE: http://n.pr/TyfUfb

NPR BREAKING NEWS ON NPR! In a strong showing of solidarity, the Coalition of Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) Directors in South Dakota voted 6-0 to submit a report to Congress confirming S.D.’s systematic violations of ICWA. The directors demanded that the Bureau of Indian Affairs live up to its months-old promise of hosting a summit on Native American foster care in S.D. LISTEN TO THE NPR REPORT HERE: http://n.pr/TyfUfb

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    Via the Lakota People’s Law Project: I first became aware of this problem (which is not unique to South Dakota) from...
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    Good to know that American government isn’t outsourcing all its racism to foreign countries.
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    Stealing children is some mythic level evil: it characterizes a) genocide and b) fairy tale villains.
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