#protecticwa

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The Protect ICWA Campaign was established by four national Native organizations: the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the National Congress of American Indians, the Association on American Indian Affairs, and the Native American Rights Fund. Together, the Campaign works to serve and support Native children, youth, and families through upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Campaign works to inform policy, legal, and communications strategies with the mission to uphold and protect ICWA.

The Indian Child Welfare Act (#ICWA) was put in place over 40 years ago to curb generations of harm resulting from the targeted assimilation of Native kids. On November 9th, it is being challenged in front of #SCOTUS, in Haaland v. Brackeen. @protecticwa invites families, leaders, singers, dancers, traditional practitioners, elders, knowledge keepers, youth, and allies to join them as they respectfully demonstrate support for ICWA at the Supreme Court on November 9th, the day of oral arguments for Haaland v. Brackeen. If opponents succeed in dismantling ICWA, they will have cleared the way for a larger attack on Native families, Native land, and tribal sovereignty. We all must stand up for ICWA.

https://linktr.ee/protecticwa

Join @ProtectICWA for a respectful demonstration on Nov. 9:

(It may also re-designate the term "Indian" in the bill to mean a racial classification rather than political, reversing precedent with regard to tribal sovereignty. Native tribes must remain independent entities in the law rather than just a race to protect their rights to self-governance.)

The Lakota People's Law Project is asking US citizens to ask their state lawmakers to enact similar legislation at the state level which codifies the rights and protections ICWA gives to Native children should it be weakened in the Supreme Court. This is not protection for the ICWA itself, although they do have action you can take for that on their website as well. In the link is a pre-written email which you can personalize and easily send to your state lawmakers.

Thanks for your time. :)