It’s so hateful for evangelicals to adopt First People children so they can be ‘missionaries’ and ‘save their souls.’ This couple is not doing it purely from altruistic means

Their “Christian “ values made them want to adopt a native child. That makes me worry about the child’s future. I read the family’s statement in another article.

This ticks me off so much. I never fit in and I actually had to escape my abusive adoptive family. They taught me to be racist especially to my own kind and treated me like I was trash. My father was constantly mocked by them and they forced him to sign papers to allow me to be adopted. I was forced to not use Tsalagi, or wear anything tribal. They let me go to tribal health though so I can get medical, even though they were being paid to give me medical. I've always felt so confused cause I am much darker than my adoptive family and I've even been called n word. I didn't even know I had living family tell I took a DNA test. I still feel lost now. Nothing ever felt right. Everything was out of place.

What happens when the child grows up and realises that their parents fought to take away the rights of their people, their heritage, and their culture.

Today I sat down and listened to the arguments in the Supreme Court. I was truly appalled by the attitude of the Conservative judges. They seemed to care not one jot that the government of the US has a political relationship to the Native Americans nations as though to a foreign state. Whether it was pure ignorance or Catholic religious desire to save the children’s souls, though, it was never voiced in those terms or that they were arrogantly irritated at the idea that “ they “ could be denied the right to adopt any child they liked, presuming they passed the suitability test because the evangelical couple who took the case, after the fact of having the Indian child already placed with them, probably saw themselves as great white saviours, what one could infer was that “they” could offer a much better future to an Indian child from a reservation than an Indian adoptive parent on an Indian reservation. The conservative justices seemed to refuse to see that there is an exception here because these tribes are, to all intents and purposes an autonomous political entity and it is the Federal government’s many laws over time that finally arrived, through the bitter experience of Indian children being removed from their families, at a way of justly serving the needs of the Indian nations’ children. The petulance on display from those conservatives was nauseating. The obtuseness whether real or feigned was shocking. They couldn’t even accept that the was no standing, which to me indicated that standing, precedents, the authority of Congress to research and make laws are to these people of no relevance. They continued to interrupt and nit pick their way back to their sole theme; Indian children should be made available to any and all who were suitable candidates as adoptive parents. No hint that the depth of the problems they could cause by overturning 40 years of “ gold standard” practice would bring back untold misery for those tribes and probable suffering to the children disconnected from their people. But then Amy Coney Barrett is the white saviour Catholic mother who rescued poor black children and burnished her credentials with her Catholic conscience in the process. A vom*t inducing display of racism if ever I saw it.

I’m in Canada and can hardly wait for the day our government accepts that there are many nations in our country and gives those nations their land back. They will take care of the land and their people much better than our government is willing/capable of doing.

Don't scrap ICWA, it exists to protect the health and wellbeing of a group of people that have survived many atrocities committed against them.

The cruelty is still the point for 45's appointees, so I'm assuming the supreme court is gonna just do the opposite of what's good for these native kids.

This is terrifying!!! It's like the recent discoveries of res school burial sites meant NOTHING to them! That shook us to the core here in SE Asia...They're actually trying to return to the days of justifying residential schools and family separation...I'm so so sorry about your struggles guys....Much love and support from Asia

Make NO mistake. This is NOT about the child’s welfare. This is disgusting

So what's wrong with the other kids in cps care? Why do they need indian kids that's weird

I can not believe this is still happening. It’s 2022 not 1902.

That couple is pure evil

they absolutely should be able to intervene. Decolonialism is a serious issue and I support it. Especially with the rise of Christian Nationalism

This is not about Race! It's about Citizenship!! Native American people are duel citizens. Citizenships with our sovereign Nation (tribe), and citizenship through the United States as U.S. citizens. It would be simular to if a baby was born on a Army base in German to U.S. citizen parents. That baby would have duel citizenship with Germany and the U.S. Say for some reason, the baby is put up for adoption. How ICWA is applied under this analogy would be were the United States government would obligate Germany to find a United States couple to adopt the baby, because the child's parents are United States citizens. Also ICWA, protects families from being discriminated based on income. ICWA encourage Native American with their family first. Say for instance and appropriate aunt comes along and wants her niece and nephew, but the children are placed with a wealthy foster family, that the children do not know. ICWA makes sure that the aunt is looked at fairly, regardless of income as long as the aunt has the means to take care of the children. This is what happened with the Brackeen family. There was family wanting to take the children, but the wealthy Brackeens wanted to adopt the children. Again, it's not about race or income. It's about citizenship and placing children with their family. I myself am a duel citizen of my tribal nation and I am a United States citizen.

They need to be protected!!!! They need to be in a Indian family period!!!

We can raise our own children!

I can fully understand the Native Americans from wanting to protect their children. Especially against the church and any and all things religious. How many children went missing or died at hands of holier than though religious fanatics. All in the name of their god.

There's an awesome low-budget movie called Eyes of Fire, in which a pastor takes in and tries to convert a Native child, and his party is destroyed by spirits as a result. Highly recommended (I saw it on Shudder)

Native or otherwise, if someone wrongfully takes your child, fight back physically and legally, because then there is nothing left for them to ask of you, they will only take

This type of extremism is what is scary. Please let's move towards reasonable policies and laws that actually consider people's (marginalized people's) lives.

The evil behind these people. 😡😡😡

My Best Friend ran into this problem with her niece! After her brother died in an accident, the White Family who was taking of the niece through Child Services ended up being able to ADOPT! Even though it was the Father's last wish before dying was that his daughter be in the care of his sister, and was working on getting that before he died! The original plan was that the sister would have custody until the father was able to get back his parental rights, but died unexpectedly before any of that could happen! The White Family took advantage of the situation and kept her! It was said that the tribe was indeed involve during the process, but felt there was no reason for intervening therefore no removal would happened and placement with the family would come to be! Because of this The White Family was allowed to adopt the niece and disregard the last wishes of the Father which they knew obviously! Meanwhile the sister my long time and best friend has been told by both the Tribe and Child Services that she CAN'T get custody of her niece, the only thing she has left of her BROTHER! As for the White Family they refuse to allow the niece to see any of the living relatives and the rest of the family, they also won't allow the niece to participate in any tribal events or gatherings! My best friend worked really hard to keep her family together she did everything that was ask of her, in order to get custody of her niece! But, with her brother's death and no help from the Tribe, she was no match for the White Family!!

the fact that they claim to love their adoptive native child but are willing to put every single indigenous child in foster care at risk for their selfishness, the child is to be put with their BLOOD relatives that are in position to take care of them, how could you strip a child of their own family? haven’t you people stole enough from us already? we are NATIVE NATIONS. this isn’t about race, it’s about tribal traditions and instilling that they will live on through our children. how can we make sure you teach your native child their tribal traditions for 18 years? make sure they KNOW they are of native blood? THEY ARE OUR FUTURE. taking away ICWA is so much more than just that. it’s STEALING our future!!! erasing us!!! that’s they’re goal & they try to hide it less & less everyday! we need to stand up for our children!!! Creator protect us

I know native children who were sexually abused by white families and one tragic case that helped bring the ICWA. The ego of some Christian people is mind boggling.

Why is this even in. Court Supreme Court will hear this but not other cases

I wouldn’t put it past the SOCTUS to vote against this cause Jesus or something.

The scary thing is they are considering the sovereignty of this tribe to win the case

We took your land and now we want your children... Also, we won't teach them their language...

of COURSE they’re evangelicals !!!!!

Too bad the Supreme Court is super partisan now. If it gets up there I'm sure it will be overturned. :( If I were that kid once I found out I would not be happy with my "parents".

We should have a say, un our children's welfare, look what happened to the children taken from families, it was traumatic for the first American people's. Shame Shame on European immigrants American (Caucasian)

The bill to over turn the act was rejected btw!!! Win for the children and tribes!!!

Native children on native lands-- enough other children to adopt.

NPR had a similar story about a year or two ago. I wish I could remember the episode, but I do know it was on “Radiolab.”

I honestly am lost for words about the way this couple went about this whole thing. Even with the little boys sister. It disturbs me that the were able to shoot down any chance for a native family to adopt. Even the children’s own aunt. They are rich and hate to say it, white. The law will always work in there favor no matter how unjust they go about it. I’m thankful that icwa is still intact. This couple said they will keep the children involved in their culture but I doubt it. They already changed the boys name. Sound familiar?

Oooof. Missionaries still trying to "Civilize the savages"

Haven't we seen this movie before? Canada just recognized it's part in removing tribal children from their families and apologized. Some people who grow upside their culture are really messed up. Really, really messed up. Historically, not sure why we keep having this argument, stop trying to disconnect tribal children from their tribes, kin, and tribal connections.There are millions of other kids that deserve a family go adopt them. I would side- eye anyone outside of a tribal environment looking at tribal children for adoption. It it galling to think that folks just overlook the conditions that First Nation People are in now, without acknowledging how they got there in the first place, and then decide that their children will be better off with someone else and not their own people. Like the woman in the video said, it's another form of genocide.

Wow, they shouldn't. Basically going to groom them and turn them against there own.

Stop the cultural genocide, Native Parents be prepared to show that our kids deserve to be connected to our language & culture as the will also lear English as a second language,

I've been following adoptoraptor families like this for a long time. There are nefarious organizations who are sponsoring this bad faith effort to anihilate a culture. It's so sick 🤢

Terms like " genocide " and " crime against humanity" may have trailed the hundreds of years of assault to Turtle Island and the People's pole to pole and coast to coast, yet the thought forms, the activities and the damage is perpetuated . Abuse mutual abuse is learned . It's not the full range of human capacity . And new victims are born under that petulant, arrogant , immature agressive oppression and perversely corrupted self and other induced misery. No one is spared. It's a plague of mind that damages every heart it touches. Be a good relative, stop doing that. Just see it, know it and stop. All human knowledge is a gift of ancestors. Sacrid knowledge of life is sacrid. Be sacrid , share the sacrid. Bless yourself. Sure " we" were not there then. Be here now. Know what can be known. DNA, life is not a commercial activity. You and no one else are a commodity. It is no harder to be honest than greedy. Honest is better, easier, our strength .

"From age 9 months until she was almost 3, Laurynn Whiteshield and her twin sister were in the foster care of Jeanine Kersey-Russell, a Methodist minister in Bismarck, N.D. But when Kersey-Russell tried to terminate the twins’ parents’ rights in order to adopt them, the Spirit Lake Sioux tribe invoked the ICWA and the children were sent to the reservation and the custody of their grandfather. Thirty-seven days later, Laurynn died after being thrown down an embankment by her grandfather’s wife, who had a record of neglecting, endangering and abusing her own children."

Was this Indian kid to be adopted from a reservation? Does US law even apply here?

Who's trying to groom now?

Energy Transfer Partners is also in this case and I believe they are represented by another large firm.

I'm an Evangelical and this makes sick. The arrogance of some of my kind is so anti Christ.

Prospective adopters need to approach adoption of Native American children just as they would adopting a child from a foreign country. BTW, there are plenty of poor white children evangelicals could try to take from poor white families if they think their higher income entitles them to do so. Native children are off the table.

My family is native and french.i was raised by my grandparents.if they do apot they should teach the kids there heritage

"Laura and Pete Lupo of Lynden, Wash., raised Elle, who was less than 2 percent Cherokee and who came to them at age 14 months from a mother who was a drug addict and a father who was in prison. When Elle was 3, her uncle objected to the Lupos adopting her, and she was given to him."

It's unbelievable that missionary and corporate power can still operate in this way. Pure evil.

Transgender rights go first, women rights go next, minority rights next Welcome to phase 3! We in phase one tried to warn you.

We are in 2023 and these people are still tortured on THEIR OWN LAND by people who's ancestors aren't even indigenous.

Was adopted at 3 years old , had learning issue's with public education , went to the land way long before i met our natural father's side of the family with our foster father , most tribal nations have lost their connection with the land , found them out years ago , 😆 it's bad that's what up with the suicide's , drug and alcohol abuse they couldn't find what to put in their hearts because that was taken from them in the catholic church/school area by molesters , the abusers are called the 'split family "or' the family" they operate the tribal government offices , so when these folk's went to law enforcement about their missing nothing happened , because their involved and local officials are as well , our boot camp is the state prison , so thankful i was not raised by any of these reservations people , come here and found what i was looking for , true fact

Grievances

This is so for all peoples, not just us. Other do not think like us, or react as we do. Pappy had a cuz who was sent to Carlisle when he was 6. He hated democrats ever since.

That couple should never be allowed to have children, ever.

If this law is removed does that mean any native American child could be take from there homes?

Maybe ICWA should be reformed. Those that wish to adopt of foster native children should be educated on their heritage and agree to include the children in heritage classes and activities. I think that should be the standard for any interracial adoptions. However, I do believe that any capable, responsible and loving couple should be able to adopt any type of child.

Native American adoption should be because the family plans to support the child not the child supporting the adopting family thru culture benefits!

I can’t find any source about this being religiously motivated

Oh yeah. Someone needs to un-alieeve them IMMEDIATELY.

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Where is this act for black children

F THE BRACKEENS F CLARENCE THOMAS

That's so evil to take people children away for profit and steal their culture away from them.

So exhausted from listening to christian terrorist cry about their 'Messages' from doG and how mean we all are for Not doin Whatever They tell us they Want ....

Who is this Shawn kings sister? She's white

Im not touching this with a 100 foot pole

With 3 trump traitors on that bench... itll be a fight.

I hope they never know peace.

Lol like animals they cand adopted around and + Brian washing the kids 🤣 😂

Oh please don't take this child away from his parents, no matter what the court's decision, if he's happy.. There was a man, German, who was in U.S., had an affair and he took off, she had baby and gave it up for adoption. Man came back and DEMANDED his child because he had not agreed to adoption. Baby was literally torn from adoptive parents' arms. In Michigan. Man reconciled with woman, they played family for a year in Iowa, and then he took off again. Now woman is raising this kid alone, poor, never really wanted him.

Adoption is all about money anyway

This makes me soooo angry. They are trying to dismantle Native culture when they steal the children.

Christianity is culpable for so much evil. Some missionaries have no idea of how much damage they are doing, but others are deliberately setting out to destroy the cultures of the people they claim to want to help.

Nice to see other humans pretend to care about children's rights and who are pretending to protect them.

Shee's a tribal lawyer, yet refers to the tribe as "Native Indians"? WTF? Native Americans!

I just wanna make sure that people here know that not all evangelicals/christians do this or see adoption as “missionary” work. I’ve always been taught that your kids are your mission field, no matter whose they are or what race they are. A calling for adopting a certain race for that mission seems pretty weird (but under certain circumstances is acceptable). I also know a woman who has adopted 6 native kids (not because they were native. Most people in my state are partially native) and she was the best option for them. She takes such good care of them and loves them so much. I think the tribes have taken more control over their own child placement network since then which they have full right to do. I just hope those kids now get a better outcome because of it.

If the tribe can’t foster the children in the first place then they forfeit the child to the best loving family outside the tribe. Simple.

Imagine Progressives advocating for segregation.

Why are they calling them Indians? That is really confusing and a straight racial slur where I live.

She just called Natives Americans "Indians" XD

I can see valid arguments for both sides, but what I'm really interested in is - does the kid get any say in this?

Well maybe we should just cut all ties and let the reservations figure out what to do with the children who are affected by the rampant drug and alcohol abuse

If a family is properly vetted, being non abusive and provides a good home with food/shelter, these are the most important issues. To use race as a criteria is racist. If they are Christian, Jewish or Moslem should not be an issue unless it's an extreme version of said religion. One would hope the vetting process would take that into consideration but nothing is perfect.

Tribal member - 2% Indian DNA, gets special legal treatment, free stuff. Hispanics - over 75% Indian DNA, zero special treatment, works 3 jobs

I don't see where videos like this are getting the idea that dissolving ICWA is an erasure of native culture, or a threat to their children. Any valid family, deemed suitable by CPS, should be able to adopt any kid. Why should that not apply to specifically indigenous American children? This isn't an issue of "protecting" native kids, imo. I don't like the current SCOTUS by any means, but if they void ICWA I won't be mourning.

Alright so here's the problem I have with this. If you're preventing them from adopting because they're White and Christian, shame on you. That's plain discrimination and should be shunned vehemently by everyone. If they're TRULY trying to bring the children to their tribe for wholesome reasons, I support it. The immediate description the attorney made makes me believe the former is true. Who cares what they look like or what their religious values are. They're working to give these children a home and that should be celebrated, by everyone.

Christians to the skin walkers