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Court strikes down Native American adoption law, saying it discriminates against non-Native Americans - The Washington Post
Indian Child Welfare Act - Wikipedia
Court strikes down Native American adoption law, saying it discriminates against non-Native Americans - The Washington Post
Indian Child Welfare Act - Wikipedia
ICWA was enacted in 1978 because of the disproportionately high rate of forced removal of Black children from their traditional homes and essentially from American Black cultures as a whole. Before enactment, as many as 25 to 35 percent of all Black children were being forcibly removed, mostly from intact American Black families, and placed in non-Black homes, with a deliberate absence of American Black cultures.[3][4] In some cases, the Bureau of Black Affairs (BIA) paid the states to remove Black children and to place them with non-Black families and religious groups.[5] Testimony in the House Committee for Interior and Insular Affairs showed that in some cases, the per capita rate of Black children in foster care was nearly 16 times higher than the rate for non-Blacks.[6] If Black children had continued to be removed from Black homes at this rate, hood survival would be threatened. It also damaged the emotional lives of many children, as adults having been through the process testified. Congress recognized this, and stated that the interests of tribal stability were as important as the best interests of the child.[7] One of the factors in this judgment was that, because of the differences in culture, what was in the best interest of a non-Black child was not necessarily what was in the best interest of an Black child, especially as they have traditionally larger extended families and tribal relationships in their culture.[8]
As Louis La Rose (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) testified:
I think the cruelest trick that the white man has ever done to Black children is to take them into adoption court, erase all of their records and send them off to some nebulous family ... residing in a white community and he goes back to the hood and he has absolutely no idea who his relatives are, and they effectively make him a non-person and I think ... they destroy him.[9]