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#OurChildrenAreSacred
We can end #SouthDakota’s kidnapping of #Lakota children. Help us restore basic human rights to Lakota families and tribes.
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The LAKOTA Children need YOUR help!
- The Federal government sends $100 million to South Dakota each year to fund foster care and related services, like adoption
- the Tax Foundation ranks South Dakota 4th in the nation for general dependence on federal support
- The three largest categories of 2012 federal foster care funding in South Dakota were: Children’s Services - $55 Million, Foster Children’s health care - $48 Million, and Administrative Funding - $4 Million
- From 1999-2009, the average number of Native American children entering foster care in South Dakota each year was 742
- South Dakota is ranked 4th nationally for highest child rate-of-removal
- Indian Child Welfare Act directors suspect that an inappropriate conception of “neglect” may be used by D.S.S. to seize high numbers of Native children from their homes. Poverty DOES NOT mean neglect
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#WeCanLandOnACometButWeCant
stop the kidnapping of Lakota Children!
If We Don’t Act Now, We Will Lose The Opportunity To End This Crisis
Let us put our minds together and see what life we can make for our children.
Sitting Bull
The Lakota people have been suffering a cultural genocide for over 130 years. The taking of the Lakota children used to be under the guise of education in the boarding school era and it now exists through South Dakota’s Department of Social Services. DSS not only removes Lakota children from their families, often under suspicious auspices, but these children are also removed from their communities in direct violation of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. We would like to ensure that this never happens again by helping to create a Lakota-run child and family service programs. Everyday we are getting closer to attaining this goal, but we cannot achieve this solution without your help and support. Please sign our petition and donate to become a member!
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13% of the child population in South Dakota is Native American, yet they make up 54% of the children housed in state foster care.
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It’s incredibly important. I mean look, we’re a poor state… We’re like North Dakota without oil. We’re like Nebraska without Omaha and Lincoln. We don’t have resources… We don’t have high income jobs. We don’t have factories opening here hiring people in high wage jobs.
South Dakota Governor William Janklow, when asked by NPR journalist Laura Sullivan how important the federal money is for the state’s D.S.S.
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