legislation

25 USC Chapter 21

January 26, 2012
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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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November 22, 2011
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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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June 7, 2011
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WE NEED HELP!

We could really use your help – prayer wise as well as hands on. I am the administrator of CAICW…
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Advocacy

April 12, 2011
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Washington DC, January 2011

This was by far the best visit to DC that we’d had yet. Our group, including parents from New Mexico,…
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Child Abuse

December 21, 2010
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Meeting with Sen. Elect John Hoeven’s Chief of Staff

I stated the issue concerning us, and then said, “While the Indian Child Welfare Act is embraced by tribal government,…
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January 3, 2009
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Tell Your Representatives to Make These Legislative Changes! Part Three

.7. Finally, if tribal membership is a political rather than racial designation, (as argued) than is it constitutional for the…
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January 2, 2009
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Tell Your Representatives to Make These Legislative Changes! Part Two

.4. United States citizens, no matter their heritage, have a right to fair trials. a) When summoned to a tribal…
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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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December 18, 2008
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Possible Incentives for ICWA –

. Congressional Indulgence of Tribal Government? In 2002, Senator Max Baucus wrote in reference to a bill concerning federal recognition…
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December 3, 2008
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One Problem With ICWA – Qualified Expert Witness

.According to Chief Judge-Sisseton-Wahpeton Sioux Tribal Court, Director-Northern Plains Tribal Judicial Institute-University of North Dakota Law School, three stages of…
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November 21, 2008
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ICWA Has hurt Children and Parents.

Federal, State, and Tribal authorities have favored a child’s tribal heritage over that child’s Irish, Afro-American, Scottish, Latino, or Jewish…
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November 13, 2008
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ICWA ‘s Wrong – Kids Have Rights

.Deborah Maddox, acting Director of the BIA Office of Tribal Services in 1993, said, “the intent of Congress in passing…
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September 23, 2008
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Spoke at the Mille Lacs Symposium re: ICWA

.I was asked to speak about ICWA at the Mille Lacs Equal Rights Symposium this last weekend. This was, I…
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May 3, 2008
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Tribal Government shouldn’t have jurisdiction over our kids

.Wake up America. Tribal Government’s should not be given jurisdiction over our children simply because they claim the right. I…
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