‘Native children belong in Native communities’: tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule

Groups say new directive fails to respect Native sovereignty amid complicated history of Indigenous child removals ...
Phys.org

Native American mothers separated from their children experience a raw, ongoing grief that has no end, says researcher

Native American mothers whose children were separated from them—either through child removal for assimilation into residential boarding schools or through coerced adoption—experience the kind of grief ...
Yahoo

For nearly 150 years, Native children were sent to boarding schools. Here's what to know

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 ...

‘Keep Native kids with Native cultures’: Dakota County celebrates opening of Indian Child Welfare Act Court

This court matters because it creates a space where Native voices, traditions and sovereignty are respected in a meaningful ...
New Republic

Supreme Court Delivers Major Win for Native Rights and Tribal Sovereignty

The Supreme Court on Thursday rejected challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act, a major win for Native rights and the protection of Indigenous culture. The justices voted 7–2 to uphold the Indian ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Supreme Court preserves law that aims to keep Native children with tribal families

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack ...
NPR

In a major win for tribal sovereignty, Supreme Court upholds Indian Child Welfare Act

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, ...
CNN

The remains of five Native American children who died at an Indigenous boarding school are being returned to their tribes over a century later

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 ...
AZ Central

Native families welcome children home, but 'long road' not over for others

TEMECULA, Calif. — Cash Rocha is 7, going on 8. He started second grade this fall along with his two best friends from preschool. Cash gets good grades, but says he didn't like school. He rarely holds ...
The Spokesman-Review

Nearly 1,000 native children died at boarding schools, Interior Department finds

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 ...
The Desert Sun

Native children do best when connected to their families, cultures, communities | Opinion

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 ...