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For the last month I have woken up, gone outside, basked in sunlight, made some coffee, drank it, grit my teeth and started up my phone to see if SCOTUS had ruled on Haaland v. Brackeen yet, kickstarting a new GOP movement to steal Native children & undermine tribal sovereignty.
The Brackeens were White grandparents who wanted to adopt their Native grandchild after their white parent was killed and their Native parent had a drug problem. The case tugs at the heartstrings. If that's all you knew, you'd be inclined to think they were in the right.
But under the rules of the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act (#ICWA), courts must place Native children first with Native family members, or lacking that, other tribal members, or lacking that, RELATED tribes (such as a Creek kid going to a Seminole home, both Muscogean tribes).
