legalizing forceable removal is genocidal act...Walter Echo-Hawk: “Before 1978, the year Indian Child Welfare Act was passed, Indian Tribes across the country were facing an acute human rights crisis. The crisis arose from the systematic taking of Indian children by state child welfare systems and state courts. This got to the point where, on a national basis, one in four Indian children had been removed from their families. That staggering and frightening statistic placed the very cultural survival of Indian nations into jeopardy. Because culture is passed down from parents and grandparents to children, taking away children destroys culture. According to the United Nations, in its genocide convention, the systematic taking of children from one cultural group and placing them with another is one of the definitions of genocide. Applying main street American values in Indian child custody decisions, or ignoring the cultural aspects and the cultural importance of children in the survival of Indian Tribes, is what Congress meant to stop with the Indian Child Welfare Act.More: utulsa.edu/tulawblog/?p=1131
Posted on: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:49:59 +0000
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