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Intercept Article on ICWA and the Brackeen Case #ProudtoProtectICWA

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“Babies don’t get born and run down to the citizenship office and file a
petition,” said Matthew Fletcher, director of the Indigenous Law and
Policy Center at Michigan State University. When his own child was born,
he and his partner took a year to register
him as a tribal member, in part because he was eligible for more than
one tribal nation. “To say that somehow this kid hasn’t been enrolled
yet and therefore doesn’t have a political relationship is really quite
disingenuous.”
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Reflecting on the rhetoric used by ICWA opponents like Sandefur, Nicole
Adams, a spokesperson for Partnership for Native Children, pointed to
the institutions that pushed for the use of boarding schools and
adoption for decades before ICWA’s passage. “They
were led by very well-intentioned Christian coalitions purporting that
Indian children needed to be saved, and they were just the ones to do
it. If you look at the rhetoric being put out by some of ICWA’s most
staunch opponents, it is eerily and frighteningly
similar.”
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