#talagi

I'm sitting here watching Dr. Phil only because it's dealing with tsalagi issues. It's about The Indian Child Welfare Act and how by law adopted tsalagi kids can be forcibly removed by our tribal government.

The episode speaks about a tsalagi dad who was engaged to a hispanic woman who became pregnant. The woman broke off the engagement and left the dad. He was not involved from that point on and offered o support the child only on condition of her deciding to marry him again. She did not. Fast forward to the child being born she texted him and he agreed to let her have full custody. She decides to give the baby up for adoption. The father later finds out and then files to have the baby removed from their care and raised by him. The courts allowed this to take place. I want to know your thoughts.

As a native american a tsalagi myself. I fully understand the importance of why this act was written and full believe it needs to exist. A few decades ago something like what 30-60% of native children wee adopted out/removed from their tribes (from all tribes) that's a perfect way to eliminate a civilization/culture; removing it's new generations. 

What I don't agree with is that in some of these cases it is not in the best interest of the child including this case. The adoptive parents are great. They are wonderful parents the biological son had nothing and wanted nothing to do with the child and had nothing to do with the child until he heard the baby was going to be adopted. Because the child is a citizen of our nation he was able to get custody even though he had declined to car for her initially. That is not a fit parent. I think there should be more guide lines to it than that. At the very lease there can be a unified raising of the child where the adoptive parent could still have visitation. The child is one or 2 years old and is attached to them already. The 

There is also a case on here of a native woman who gave her child up for adoption. The tribe got involved and took the child. The mother said that she wants the child to be with the adoptive parents and fully supports them but the tribe over threw her some how.

For those who don't know The Cherokee Nation is a government that is  owned by the country and in faith has policies that handle relations between the two and just like there are laws tat mandate child welfare according to state (states are also owned by the country and have policies that handle things between the two) the nation is no different. This is why this is possible.