OUR HISTORY: Lost Children of the Indian Adoption Projects: The Rights of an Indian Child

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Monday, April 10, 2017

The Rights of an Indian Child

The Rights of Indian Children ABA Article

Posted on April 10, 2017 by Kate Fort

The tribe I worked for decided to “bring the children home” through a focus on children in their community and ensuring resources to support that work. Many strategies were employed, depending on case specifics. Ensuring the tribal children were closer to home, both in proximity and culturally, was the goal. Some cases achieved the goal through reunification with the natural parents, others by placement within kinship care from stranger foster care. One of the primary practices was the transfer of cases to tribal court when the parents were amenable. In the end we brought all but one child back into tribal custody with an over 75 percent kinship placement rate.