Foster parents worry about the implications of overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the effects it could have on the community.
, it came to be after occurrences of children being removed from their homes without evidence of abuse or neglect.
“It’s a very scary time for Native American communities across the United States,” said Jeremy Zahn, development coordinator for the Urban Inter-Tribal Center of Texas. “No one wants to go back 40 years back to those times.”Zahn explained that challenging the act rehashes historical wounds made by the U.S. government.
“We’ve undergone not just assimilation and relocation, moving away from reservation systems to urban areas, but it’s also boarding school initiatives,” Zahn said. In 1956, the Indian Relocation Act was passed. Between 1869 and 1960, thousands of Native American children were removed from their homes and placed inJodi Voice Yellowfish studied social work in college and became a foster parent herself. She worries about the implications of overturning ICWA and the effects it could have on the community.
“There’s a lot of things that make it hard to assert our tribal sovereignty and this is one of them, directly impacting the welfare of our posterity, of our children, of our future,” said Yellowfish.“A part of the act is understanding that if a child can self-identify as American Indian and knows their tribe that the caseworker is supposed to act and contact that tribe,” Yellowfish said.
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