Existing Indian Family Doctrine

Advocacy

Mrs. MorrisJune 11, 2016
245

Lexi is not alone: New BIA rules ensure many children will be torn from their families

RE: Lexi, the little girl torn from her family in California after being labeled ‘Indian’ and subjected to a racist…
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September 24, 2013
1 182

VERONICA: ONE OF MANY MULTI-HERITAGE CHILDREN HURT BY ICWA

TAHLEQUAH, Okla, September 23, 2013 – The adoption of 4-yr-old Veronica Rose by Matt and Melanie Capobianco has been upheld…
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Advocacy

September 13, 2013
179

Keep Dissing Non-Indians. It brings more people to our site, frightened for their kids ~

NEWS FLASH: MOST children targeted by ICWA are multi-racial. Statements by ICWA supporters that Non-members have NO RIGHT to speak…
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June 10, 2013
170

Existing Indian Family Doctrine

This Page is going to be under construction for quite awhile. Please be patient as we allow it to remain…
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June 10, 2013
118

In re Bridget R.

THE SUPERIOR COURT OF LOS ANGELES COUNTY In re Bridget R., et al., Minors, (1996) 41 Cal.App.4th 1483 (Bridget R.).…
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Advocacy

April 14, 2013
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Baby Veronica’s rights, Women’s rights, and States Rights…vs Tribal Gov’t Tyranny

...Baby Veronica’s rights, Women’s rights, and States Rights…vs Tribal Gov’t Tyranny - What the Cherokee Nation is pushing for and…
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February 25, 2013
103

CAICW Files Amicus Brief in Veronica Case

The statutory and constitutional issues addressed in this case impact the equal protection, due process, liberty, and state rights provisions…
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Child Abuse & Neglect

July 26, 2012
125

So. Carolina High Court Rules in favor of Cherokee Nation in Baby Veronica Case

The adoption case caught national attention on New Year’s Eve when the Capobiancos were forced to hand over the toddler…
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Advocacy

January 26, 2012
140

Haley Hernandez Reports on the Veronica Petition – 20,000 Signatures

My husband did not feel his reservation was a safe place to raise children and thus raised them elsewhere. Further,…
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January 12, 2012
135

Save Veronica Rose!

A terrible injustice that has occurred to a two-year-old South Carolina child named Veronica Rose and her adoptive parents. Two…
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November 22, 2011
2 117

Our Week in Washington DC, October 24-28, 2011

Senator Coburn’s Chief of Staff, Mike Schwartz was incredibly welcoming. He remembered us from our visit in 2007 and was…
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November 21, 2011
154

Rebuttal to NPR’s ICWA Series; from the Mother of Enrolled Children

One Minneapolis social worker once told me that the only reason my husband's grandchildren weren't removed from their parents sooner…
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Advocacy

September 29, 2011
116

CONGRATULATIONS for Successful Adoptions!

CONGRATULATIONS TO FIVE WONDERFUL FAMILIES Who in the last two months have either successfully completed their adoptions or will be…
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Advocacy

August 22, 2011
144

Learn More about How ICWA is Hurting Children!

“We need help! This child will be dead in this woman's hands...April 7, 2011— “I have no were else to…
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Mrs. MorrisMay 11, 2010
113

Case Law for Existing Indian Family Doctrine

.Holyfield – the first case in which the federal high court has construed ICWA, Mississippi Choctaw Indian Band v. Holyfield,…
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May 1, 2010
103

ICWA Case Law & other Authority

. Cases:Adoption of Lindsay C. (1991) 229 Cal.App.3d 404, 280 Cal.Rptr. 194Doe v. Hughes, Thorness, Gantz, et al. (Alaska 1992)…
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January 1, 2009
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Tell Your Representatives to Make These Legislative Changes!

Protecting children and the families they love…1. Children of tribal heritage should be guaranteed protection equal to that of any…
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