06/17/2023
If you haven’t yet heard today’s joyous news — and I cannot overstate how wonderful and important this is — today, the Supreme Court upheld, in its entirety, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA)!
This is a monumental day for Indigenous and human rights. The Supreme Court’s decision is a huge win not just for Native children, families, and cultures, but also for tribal sovereignty. This ruling properly recognizes tribes as sovereign political nations with a right to self-determination and affirms our inherent right to care for our own. The impacts of this decision — which, had it gone another direction, could have created a domino effect threatening Native sovereignty far more broadly — will be felt in a positive way for the next seven generations and beyond.
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