Guest Opinion. As Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, I joined the celebrations across Indian Country for the U.S. Supreme Court’s 7-2 Brackeen v. Haaland decision upholding the Indian Child ...

When it comes to championing the health of Indigenous children in the United States, few pieces of legislation possess the profound significance of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). It is not ...

The United State Supreme Court today issued a ruling that protects tribal sovereignty and the rights of Native American families when it comes to adoption and foster-care proceedings involving Native ...

Indian Country breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday morning when the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA. That 1978 federal law gives tribal nations a voice in custody ...

ICWA has stood as a landmark law since it was enacted over 45 years ago after a congressional investigation found that over one-third of all Native children had been removed from their tribal homes ...

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld protections for Native American children under federal law on Thursday in a case that originated in Fort Worth. Jacquelyn Martin AP The U.S. Supreme Court upheld federal ...

In 1978, Congress enacted The Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. §§1901 et. seq.) to address policies which had resulted in decades of abuse of Native American children; state and private agencies ...

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Tehassi Hill, chair of the Oneida Nation in Wisconsin, about the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act. The U.S. Supreme Court delivered an ...

TEMECULA, Calif. — Cash Rocha is 7, going on 8. He started second grade this fall along with his two best friends from preschool. Cash gets good grades, but says he didn't like school. He rarely holds ...

Editor's note: This is the first in a six-installment series about Native American children in South Dakota's foster care system, produced in partnership between the Argus Leader and South Dakota ...

Because of Thursday’s Supreme Court blunder — an act of misplaced judicial restraint — the lives of some Indian children will be unnecessarily miserable, and sometimes shorter, than they would be ...