#icwa — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #icwa, aggregated by home.social.
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Reflecting on Change, by the #WabanakiREACH Board
August 8, 2024
"REACH has been through many changes and transitions over the years, evolving from an idea of #decolonization to becoming an official non-profit with a board, staff and many volunteers. It has been quite the journey thus far and we continue to transform to meet the emerging needs of the people in the #Dawnland.
"Many of the same individuals who formed #Wabanaki REACH gathered in 1999 to improve the state’s compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act (#ICWA). When tribal and state child welfare professionals first came together for that purpose, they did not envision the impact they would continue to have twenty-five years later.
"The Tribal-State ICWA Workgroup initiated the historic #Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission to further the work of increasing ICWA compliance and honoring tribal self-determination. As the Commission was launched, REACH began to form as an organization, first with a fiscal sponsor to help us gain access funding and administrative support for our work. Then in 2018, REACH became an official non-profit organization.
"In 2015, the Truth Commission’s final report spoke to the importance of the Tribal-State Workgroup and Wabanaki REACH. The Commission's recommendations continue to guide their respective work.
"The Tribal-State ICWA Workgroup continues to meet regularly to practice co-case management of ICWA cases and provide support to tribal child welfare partners; they recruit, train, and support community members to serve as ICWA Qualified Expert Witnesses; they provide a day-long educational experience for caseworkers, assess and update state child welfare policy, provide #ICWA education to Guardians ad Litem, attorneys, judges, and other service providers, and they helped create the new state law Maine Indian Child Welfare Act in 2023.
"REACH’s decolonization work centers on how to restore Wabanaki lands, water, culture, and people by:
- Continuing truth-telling initiatives. Beyond the Claims:Stories from the Land and the Heart is completing its work that sought to deepen understanding of the experiences and impacts of the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act. We are focusing on what needs to come next.
- Supporting Wabanaki wellbeing through education, building and celebrating community, reclaiming Wabanaki ways, and protecting the earth we share. REACH supports Native inmates with newsletters, books, peace and healing circles, and sweat lodge ceremonies. Food sovereignty work has been focused on creating medicine gardens, restoring clam beds, supporting food pantries, and partnering on events to increase awareness of protecting the fisheries. We hold wellness gatherings and provide direct support to community members in need. This summer, REACH supported sending 21 Wabanaki youth to summer camp.
- REACH has developed and provides impactful educational programming, believing that when people more deeply understand what happened in this territory they wish to be part of writing a different history for our grandchildren.
"The truth and reconciliation commission has truly helped people understand intergenerational trauma and strength and the process of truth, healing, and change that is now taking place in many forms in both Wabanaki and non-native spaces. We are so heartened to see these planted seeds of decolonization sprouting all over Wabanaki territory."
https://www.wabanakireach.org/reflecting_on_change_wabanaki_reach_board
#IndigenousPeoplesDay #WabanakiAlliance #TruthAndReconcilation
#Colonization #BoardingSchools #MaineSettlementAct #NativeAmericans #PenobscotNation
#Maliseet #Passamaquoddy #Mikmaq #FirstNations #MaineTribes #TruthTelling -
Today is #indigenouspeoplesday. We honor the resiliency of Native peoples & respect the enduring relationships they have with this land.
If you missed Friday's symposium #InterrogatingBrackeen—addressing tribal sovereignty & #ICWA—it's available here: https://bit.ly/3ZONwyP
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Prof. Briggs kicks off Panel 2 by teaching that whenever we review a #lawreviewarticle stating that #ICWA was passed because children were being taken, "just know that decades of history is being glossed over."
#InterrogatingHaalandvBrackeen #Brackeen #lawfedi
#legalscholarship
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Chairwoman Andrews-Maltais encourages #tribes to reach out to their #legislature to increase and strengthen the laws of #ICWA to fortify the #defenses against ever-present threats.
#HaalandvBrackeen #Brackeen #lawfedi
#legalscholarship
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Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais of Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah rounds out Panel 1 of #InterrogatingHaalandvBrackeen by stating that, "the theft of our children is the most egregious and harmful genocide that can possibly be imagined."
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Attorney Ian Gershengorn discusses his main points he brought to #SCOTUS to preserve #ICWA in #HaalandvBrackeen to show that this action was, "political, political, political".
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Our 2023 Symposium: Interrogating Haaland v. #Brackeen: Family Regulation, Constitutional Power & Tribal Resilience is less than twenty-four hours away!
Join us virtually TOMORROW Friday, October 6th from 12:00-2:30 PM EDT.
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Our final panelist is @Bethanyrberger of UConn Law. She has coauthored amicus briefs in multiple Supreme Court cases affirming tribal sovereignty & is generously serving as our symposium advisor.
Learn from Prof. Berger & others on Fri. 10/6 @ 12 EDT: https://bit.ly/CLRSymposium
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Our next panelist is Professor Gerald Torres of @YaleLawSch & @YaleEnvironment. Professor Torres served as Counsel to the Atty General on environmental & Indian affairs at the U.S. Dep't of Justice.
Learn from Prof. Torres & others on Fri. 10/6 @ 12 EDT: https://bit.ly/CLRSymposium
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Our next panelist is Ian Gershengorn, the chair of Jenner & Block's Appellate and Supreme Court Practice. Attorney Gershengorn argued on behalf of the tribes in Haaland v. #Brackeen.
Learn from Attorney Gershengorn & others on Fri. 10/6 @ 12 EDT: https://bit.ly/CLRSymposium
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We are delighted to share that Prof. Laura Briggs of @UMassAmherst will be speaking at our symposium. Prof. Briggs studies the U.S. history of gender, race, and reproduction, including Native sovereignty & #ICWA.
To learn from Prof. Briggs & others: https://bit.ly/CLRSymposium
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We are honored to have Chairwoman Cheryl Andrews-Maltais of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah) as a panelist at our symposium, Interrogating Haaland v. #bra on Friday, Oct. 6th. https://wampanoagtribe-nsn.gov/
Register to learn from Chairwoman Andrews-Maltais & others on Fri. 10/6 @ 12 EDT: https://bit.ly/CLRSymposium
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We are delighted to announce our panelists for Interrogating Haaland v. #Brackeen.
Professor Ablavsky of @StanfordLaw writes extensively on Native nations and U.S. relations.
Register here to learn from Prof. Ablavsky & others on Fri. 10/6 @ 12 EDT: https://bit.ly/CLRSymposium
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2/ And if you just can't wait for your #ICWA #Brackeen fix, UNLV's Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program is hosting a webinar with me, Addie Rolnick, Greg Ablavsky, Brooke Pinkham, Alyssa Connolly Kate Fort, Debra Gee & John Tahsuda, next week September 20, 10-12 PST. #Indigenous Register here: https://unlv.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__tNTOrn_TjutD1kEAVZ07A#/registration
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Registration is live for our 2023 Symposium: Interrogating Haaland v. Brackeen! This event will be held virtually on October 6, 2023 from 12:00-2:30 PM EDT and will feature an incredible group of panelists, including Chairwoman Andrews-Maltais, #SCOTUS attorney Ian Gershengorn, #LawProfs Greg Ablavsky, Seth Davis, Kate Fort & Gerald Torres & #GenderStudies Prof Laura Briggs
Please click here to register: https://bit.ly/interrogatingbrackeen
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Excited to announce the @ConnLRev symposium,
Haaland v. Brackeen: Family Regulation, Constitutional Power, and Tribal Resilience, virtual and free, October 6, 12-2:30 EST. Chairwoman Andrews-Maltais, #SCOTUS attorney Ian Gershengorn, and #Law Profs Greg Ablavsky, Seth Davis, Kate Fort & Gerald Torres & #Gender studies Prof Laura Briggs will examine the decision and context of attacks on #ICWA. Please boost! #Brackeen #Indigenous https://events.uconn.edu/law-school/event/48600-clr-symposium-interrogating-haaland-v-brakeen -
The Supreme Court Upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Long Struggle to Implement the Law Continues.
==A recent ProPublica investigation showed how #ICWA was being unevenly applied in some states, breaking up #NativeAmerican #families that should have received additional protections under the law. There’s still room for improvement, advocates say.
New, by @lussenpop
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Greg Ablavsky takes down Justice Thomas' flawed #Originalism (and Thomas' hate-footnote trying to rebut Greg's fabulous work) in his Haaland v. Brackeen dissent.
Kinda sad when the best support for your theories is your own dissents & concurrences, plus a 20 yr old article in the Denver L. Review, but that's what happens when you start with results then try to make the history fit later.
#Law #LawFedi #SCOTUS #Brackeen #ICWA #HIstory
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“ICWA is fundamental – it’s a crucial part of tribes’ right to govern themselves, and protects children from being forcibly removed from their family, tribe, and culture. Now we’re calling on state governments to stand with Indigenous nations and incorporate ICWA into state laws.”
--ACLU
https://austintexas.social/@Homoevolutis0/110550664185496675
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CW: US Politics, SCOTUS
While I'm glad to see that SCOTUS upheld the ICWA and ruled against gerrymandering, this NYT article tries to illustrate just how out of touch the majority on the SCOTUS is the majority of people's opinions on the matters that come before them.
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Supreme Court upholds (7-2) the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act , "a federal statute that aims to keep Indian children connected to Indian families" in adoption and foster care proceedings. Opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-376_7l48.pdf
They also rule (8-1) that tribal governments cannot override the federal bankruptcy code, since it "unequivocally abrogates the sovereign immunity of all governments", whether state, local, foreign, or tribal. Opinion: https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/22-227_i426.pdf
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my ex, a history professor, being astute as usual
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US Supreme Court upheld ICWA, protecting Native American tribes, but punted on states taking native children from families to put them up for adoption
https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182121455/indian-child-welfare-act-supreme-court-decision
In 70s congress found states had removed 1/3 of native kids from tribal homes to place them w/ non-tribal families and state institutions
Congress passed #ICWA to protect the kids
For more on ICWA, taking of native kids and the case, listen to the 2nd season of #RebeccaNagle 's #ThisLand podcast
