Posted on 01/28/2013 3:11:54 PM PST by jazusamo
If there is ever a contest for the law with the most grossly misleading title, the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 should be a prime candidate, because the last thing this Act protects is the welfare of Indian children.
The theory behind the Indian Child Welfare Act is that an American Indian child should be raised in an American Indian culture.
Based on that theory, a newborn baby of American Indian ancestry, who was adopted immediately after birth by a white couple, was at 27 months of age taken away from the only parents she has ever known and given to her father.
Apparently the tribe has rights under the Indian Child Welfare Act. If this child were of any other race, a court would be free to decide the case on the basis of whatever was in the best interests of the child. Instead, the child is treated almost as property, contrary to the 13th Amendment that outlawed slavery.
Fortunately, the legal issues growing out of this case are now before the Supreme Court of the United States. We can only hope that the justices will use their wisdom, instead of their cleverness, to decide this case.
The wisdom of Solomon provided a good example many centuries ago, in a case where two women each claimed to be the mother of a child and each demanded custody. Since he did not know who was the real mother, King Solomon said that he would cut the child in half and give each mother her half.
When one of the women dropped her claim, in order to spare the child's life, he knew that she was the real mother...
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Indian Giver..........
does it ever dawn on these people that they lost?????the entire concept of “Indian Nations : is ludicrous at best.....the war is over, as in every country on earth, the effective use of force prevails....Assimilate the “indian” population into the general population and stop pretending that they are independent nations.
does it ever dawn on these people that they lost?????the entire concept of “Indian Nations : is ludicrous at best.....the war is over, as in every country on earth, the effective use of force prevails....Assimilate the “indian” population into the general population and stop pretending that they are independent nations.
I didn’t know about this. OMG! That’s horrible. The theory/law stinks of Liberalism, and that would be about right. Those people screw up screwing up.
Indian reservations are the slummiest, most poverty stricken places I’ve seen in this country. A direct result of being “taken care of” by the government.
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