US: The US must confront its failures of Native children in foster care (Opinion)
Hill – March 08, 2022
The effect of undoing ICWA would be catastrophic. The era of genocidal warfare and forced displacement of Native peoples to reservations and boarding schools may have ended, but the disruption of Native communities continues today. Now it’s done bureaucratically, through agency procedures, court hearings and paperwork in modern-day child welfare systems. This truth is painfully reflected in the disproportionately large number of American Indian and Alaska Native children in the state foster care systems. While one percent of children in the U.S. are American Indian and Alaska Native, they make up two percent of the children in foster care, and eight percent of the children in families where one or both parents are not present.
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