Spirit Lake Reservation
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Advocacy
Tribe used ICWA to serve its own purpose, at the expense of a mother
This testimony was given to the congressional Commission on Native Children in June, 2022, at Bismarck, North Dakota. The video…
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Child Abuse & Neglect
Child Abuse and Death within Indian Country
By Elizabeth Morris, Winter 2016 “…there is no resource that is more vital to the continued existence and integrity of…
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Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl
(Video) The Implications of Native American Heritage on U.S. Constitutional Protections
Three-yr-old Lauryn Whiteshield was murdered a little over a month after her arrival to her grandfather’s home in the spring…
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Open Letter to Chairman John Hoeven, Feb 8, 2017 –
Honorable Chairman John Hoeven, On June 30, 2014, then U.S. President Barack Obama stated in a letter to Speaker John…
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Native American Kids Matter
There was a comment on this site last night that most people couldn’t see. As our followers know, I had…
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(Audio) Bundy’s 2nd Meeting with BIA Social Services Supervisor Bill McKie
This audio is of Spirit Lake Tribal member/BIA Police Officer ‘Bundy’ talking to BIA Social Services Supervisor Bill McKie about…
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(Audio) Bundy Talking to Tribal Judge Billy Dean Cavanaugh, Aug. 29, 2014
. The image with this audio is Bundy’s final affidavit to the tribal court on 8/26/2014. You an read it…
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Bundy’s 1st Meeting with BIA Social Services Superintendent Bill McKie, Aug. 2014
. . . If you are having trouble viewing the video, try this link… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PeBATE5q5s8
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Endemic Neglect. (Audio) Bundy Meets with BIA Social Services Supervisor Fernanda Shay, August 2014
We are not witnesses to the events that transpired in this family. We don’t know what went on. But what…
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Audio: Bundy Talking to Spirit Lake Tribal Judge, July 2014
. . Can’t see the video? Try this link… http://youtu.be/GT8ktk5aM7E
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Bundy: Emergency Visitation Order – April 25, 2014
. . AUDIO LINK – Patty Twohearts, court secretary tells Bundy that the judge has stopped visitation until investigation is…
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Five hours later, he died in a car wreck
He died in a car wreck on Monday, Sept. 22, 2014. Just five hours earlier, he was talking to us…
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Tom Sullivan’s Response to ACF Superior Ms. McMullen, (July 1, 2014)
July 1, 2014 Ms. Mcmullen: It is unfortunate that neither the leadership of my agency nor my department had the…
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Tom Sullivan’s Response to Chairman McDonald’s Hearing Testimony
June 25, 2014 Chairman McDonald: It was quite interesting to listen to your testimony and response to questions yesterday. I…
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TESTIMONY: CHILD PROTECTION AND THE JUSTICE SYSTEM ON THE SPIRIT LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION:
Chairman Don Young, Congressman Kevin Cramer, and other distinguished committee members, I want to thank you for this opportunity to…
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Tom Sullivan: Continual Rape of 13-yr-old Ignored
———- Forwarded message ———- From: Sullivan, Thomas (ACF) Date: Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 10:37 AM Subject: Criminal Corruption Reaches…
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PRES. OBAMA DESCRIBES CHILDREN ESCAPING RAMPANT CRIME AND CORRUPTION IN THEIR NATIVE LANDS AS AN “URGENT HUMANITARIAN CRISIS!”
Wait… whoops… I am so SO sorry! That’s NOT what he said today… rats, that’s the wrong story. It’s from…
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Tom Sullivan rebukes his DC Superiors for their negligence of children on Indian reservations
> From: “Sullivan, Thomas (ACF)” > Date: April 4, 2014 at 10:45:46 AM CDT > To: “Mcmullen, Marrianne (ACF)” >…
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Spirit Lake
February 2013, CAICW attended a Spirit Lake town hall meeting where one member after another stood up to tell the…
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Spirit Lake Child Abuse: Feb. 11 Letter from Sullivan to McMullen
Tom Sullivan’s response to offensive, child-endangering letter by his Washington DC superior, Ms. Marrianne McMullen February 11, 2014 Ms. McMullen:…
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New Documents from Federal Officials Reveal Apathy for Abused Kids on Indian Reservations
In October, CNN did a segment called “Sexual abuse rampant on Indian Reservation.” Questions were raised as to how and…
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CNN reports on rampant sexual abuse of children at Spirit Lake, North Dakota
BIA response re: Sullivan’s citations of abuse – “They have been investigated.” Right. Sure. Someone moved a file from one…
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