The #Brackeen case, and the money behind their litigation efforts, highlight what many in Indian Country already knew:
First they come for our people, and then they come for our lands. If there are no tribal people, then there are no land obligations due to tribal communities.
First they come for our people, and then they come for our lands. If there are no tribal people, then there are no land obligations due to tribal communities.
And if there are no children in tribal communities, then, the thought is, that tribal communities will cease to exist, only in books and memory.
Real interesting when you see how big oil companies are behind the big picture aims of ending ICWA.
It is bigger than just this case.
Real interesting when you see how big oil companies are behind the big picture aims of ending ICWA.
It is bigger than just this case.
In Indian Country, we have seen this same plan and ideology shape shift over generations and centuries, culminating with “kill the Indian, save the man” policies, like indentured servitude by white families, boarding schools and forced assimilation.
ICWA is critical.
ICWA is critical.
Great time to remind folks that one of the five ways Article II of the Genocide Convention defines genocide is:
“Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
ICWA seeks to prevent Native children from facing yet another form of genocide in contemporary time.
“Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.”
ICWA seeks to prevent Native children from facing yet another form of genocide in contemporary time.
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