The Supreme Court has ruled 72 in favor of the law that prritizes keeping native american adoptees within their ibe or family. It supportshe constitutionality of the 1978 indian Child Welfare act which is being challenged on the ground tt violated the equal protection clause. The case was argued before the court last november. This is about three hours and 15 nutes. We will hear arguments this morning in case 21376 and the consolidated cases. Thk you and may i please the court. Government, in 2020 there we over 11,000 nativrican children in state foster care. The indian Child Welfare act deprives indian children of thee the best intes of the child test. It replaces the test tube the hierarchy o the placement preferences that puts nonindian families at the bottom of the list. As the court explained, this fixed rates a federal policy of sending indian children to the dian community. The problem is that there are fewer than 2,000 native american foster homes. That means each year hundreds
To start with our discussion of native americans. This is one of two different discussions. Were having i want to make clear that were not talking about the indian wars in this kind of lecture thats going to be in a couple weeks and were gonna use that as as a way to link. Kind of wars throughout the 19th century all the way up to it including the spanishamerican war so our focus is were kind of around that. Were thinking more kind of legal policy and issues and and such so the goal is to think in that broad 19th century way so our start point is a couple key things we need to kind of deal with the second half of our semester one of the Big Questions were picking up on is what does it mean to be an american . All right who can claim to be an american . Thats one of the Big Questions thats going to kind of . Take us through the end of our semester into as we deal with the 19th century. So in upcoming weeks were going to talk about, you know, immigrants. Were going to talk about kind of
folks. the indigenous people of this land who want their land back. whose land? our land. whose land? our land! reporter: if many americans, mount mushmore is one of america s most awe inspiring symbols. like a giant apple pie wrapped in a kid rock tee shirt. but for others, it s a reminder this country was intended to be whites only. as we talk about the removal of controversial monuments and statues, mount rushmore is a part of that. located in the black hills of western south dakota, it has become an epicenter in the battle of who are the rightful inhabitants and caretakers of the land known as the united states of america. i m letting you go first. reporter: these two have a lot to say about it. this is nick tilson and crystal two bulls. she is also a military veteran. we met at the entrance of mount rushmore park. an indigenous run non-profit fighting to get indigenous lands back into indigenous hands. our people call this a sacred site that they blew up
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