{"id":1719144,"date":"2022-11-01T07:02:29","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719144"},"modified":"2022-11-01T07:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T11:02:59","slug":"scotus-to-decide-if-american-indian-babies-can-be-ripped-from-adoptive-parents-on-the-basis-of-skin-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/scotus-to-decide-if-american-indian-babies-can-be-ripped-from-adoptive-parents-on-the-basis-of-skin-color\/","title":{"rendered":"SCOTUS To Decide If American Indian Babies Can Be Ripped From Adoptive Parents On The Basis Of Skin Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">38<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fscotus-to-decide-if-american-indian-babies-can-be-ripped-from-adoptive-parents-on-the-basis-of-skin-color%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1719144&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>American Indians are the only group of U.S. citizens whose child custody claims are decided solely on the basis of race instead of the best interests of the child. <\/p>\n<p>Under federal law, it doesn\u2019t matter in custody disputes if a child\u2019s home is a crime-infested haven for violent gangs and drug dealers. It doesn\u2019t matter if a child\u2019s home is an avenue of emotional, physical, and even sexual abuse. What does matter is the color of the child\u2019s skin.<\/p>\n<p>In 1978, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) codifying this institutional racism. Passed out of fear that the adoption of American Indian children would erode Indian culture, ICWA mandates that children who are up for adoption with the slightest trace of Indian blood be placed under tribal custody instead of a non-Indian family. In practice, this means adoptive parents can have their children stripped away from the only parents they\u2019ve ever known to live on a reservation hundreds of miles away at the will of a tribe.<\/p>\n<p>While passed with good intentions, the law\u2019s consequences have been devastating. Sage DesRochers was born six months early at an Indian hospital in Phoenix to an abusive and alcoholic mother. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason I was born so early was because she didn\u2019t want me,\u201d DesRochers told The Federalist. \u201cYears later, when I was on the reservation with her, she told me to my face, \u2018I never wanted you, I had always wish you died.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DesRochers went to live with foster parents at five months old. They eventually tried to adopt her. When she was 4, however, ICWA was invoked and she was ordered back onto the reservation where her birth mother lived as part of Arizona\u2019s White Mountain Apache Tribe. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think she was coerced by the tribe to try and get me back,\u201d DesRochers explained. When asked about the conditions on the reservation, DesRochers answered with a question. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHave you ever seen a Third-World country?\u201d she asked. \u201cWe saw a little old Apache lady with a big case of beer and she was drinking it on the side of the road. And when I came back later, she was on the ground and the case was gone. That\u2019s the conditions of the reservation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DesRochers and her foster family initially fled to evade the court\u2019s order. She eventually lived on the reservation from ages 13 to 16. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a hard time,\u201d she said. She reported abuse from her alcoholic mother and said her peers on the reservation \u201ccalled me \u2018too white.&#8217;\u201d She left in 1991 and now lives with the parents who raised her in Arizona. Her birth mother has since passed away.<\/p>\n<p> Supreme Court to Revisit ICWA <\/p>\n<p>DesRochers\u2019 story is just one of more than a dozen cases outlined in an <a href=\"https:\/\/caicw.org\/2022\/07\/05\/brief-of-christian-alliance-for-indian-child-welfare-and-icwa-children-and-families-as-amici-curiae-supporting-the-brackeen-and-state-petitioners\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">amicus brief<\/a> by the Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare before the Supreme Court. On Nov. 9, the high court will hear oral arguments in the case <em>Haaland v. Brackeen<\/em>, where the court will decide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 1978 law allows for children to be taken from the only parents they&#8217;ve ever known to live on a reservation hundreds of miles away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1719147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1719144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1719147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1719144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1719144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1719144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}