Indian Child Welfare Act

Update: Video added from Democracy Now! on the ruling. On Turtle Talk: Supremes deliver massive win for ICWA (the federal Indian Child Welfare Act)

Andrea Martin on ICWA and an Antiracist Child Welfare Policy — Turtle Talk

Andrea Martin has posted “Beyond Brackeen: Active Efforts Toward Antiracist Child Welfare Policy,” forthcoming in the Yale Law and Policy Journal, on SSRN. Here is the abstract: Due to structural racism, legal protections afforded to families of children in the foster care system have been significantly eroded and continue to be challenged. As a result, […]…

Four White Men to Argue Brackeen — Turtle Talk

It’s now been 21+ years since the last Indigenous person argued a Supreme Court; 39 tribal or individual Indian parties since that time. Four White Men to Argue Brackeen — Turtle Talk You know the Brackeen case I’ve been posting about for awhile regarding ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act)? It’s going to be heard in front…

Tribal Defendants/Intervenors Brief in Haaland v. Brackeen — Turtle Talk

REMEMBER THIS CASE ABOUT ICWA? HERE IS THE LATEST ON IT Merits brief on behalf of the intervening tribes–Cherokee Nation, Oneida Nation, Quinault Indian Nation, Morongo Band of Mission Indians, Navajo Nation–in the Haaland v. Brackeen Supreme Court case. IntervenorTribeBrief Pace yourself–she’s a long one. Tribal Defendants/Intervenors Brief in Haaland v. Brackeen — Turtle Talk