The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was upheld by the Supreme Court to protect tribal adoptions. North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum signed a bill into law codifying the federal Indian Child Welfare Act into North Dakota, and our Native Americans have a lot to say about it.
Tribal elders are dying of COVID-19, causing a cultural crisis for American Indians
The pandemic is inflicting an incalculable toll on bonds of language and tradition that flow from older generations to the young.
(Victor J. Blue | The New York Times) Pall bearers with the coffin of Jesse Taken Alive, a Lakota member of the Standing Rock Tribe who died of COVID-19, at Kesling Funeral Home in Mobridge, S.D., on Dec. 26, 2020. The coronavirus has killed American Indians at especially high rates, robbing tribes of precious bonds and repositories of language and tradition.
By Jack Healy | The New York Times