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“This is why my mother didn’t want to give birth in a hospital. This is why she and my uncle tried so hard to avoid it, even when she began going into labor in downtown Seattle. They knew that state child welfare and private adoption agencies were actively seeking out Native children. They knew of friends and neighbors and distant relatives whose kids were taken.”
“Between the 1940s and 1970s, about one-third of Native children were separated from their families. Until Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978.”
The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 is a vital piece of legislation. It helps to keep Native families and communities intact, after generations of forced removal.
