Conservative groups say the Indian Child Welfare Act is unfairly based on race, but tribes worry the challenge could affect their future sovereignty.
Chrissi Ross Nimmo is a Cherokee citizen and a proud mother of three who grew up in Tahlequah, Oklahoma — the capitol of the Cherokee Nation. She's also the Deputy Attorney General for the Cherokee Nation, making her one of the leading attorneys defending the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA — the 1978 law that was passed to keep Native American children from being separated from their families and communities.
"It quite actually ends up harming Native American children and their parents in a variety of ways," Sandefur said. One press release in 1964 from the Bureau of Indian Affairs repeated a racist trope while celebrating native child removal:"One little, two little, three little Indians —and 206 more — are brightening the homes and lives of 172 American families, mostly non-Indians, who have taken the Indian waifs as their own."“It was pretty much decided for us," Tracy Angus, a mother, said.
Even today, Ross Nimmo explains the number of native children in foster care is overrepresented in comparison to what the overall native population is.
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