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What do you do when you're trying to make changes but you know it isn't going to happen, or you know you will be defeated. What do you do?
— 🔥 daanis 🧡 (@gindaanis) February 23, 2022
Sometimes you do things just because they're right.
Black and Indigenous Solidarities. with @robertwarriorx https://t.co/1ijvoGnXUX
An Afromystic and Anishinaabekwe talk about everything
The Land is My Ancestor Listen now (66 min) | with genomic researcher Dr. Keolu Fox
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HF855 was signed into law on May 19, 2021. This new legislation allows an adult adoptee to apply for a noncertified copy of the original certificate of birth prior to adoption immediately. If the adult adoptee is deceased, an entitled family may apply for the record.
Beginning January 1, 2022, any adult adoptee 18 years old or older may apply for a noncertified copy of the original certificate of birth prior to adoption. If the adult adoptee is deceased, an entitled family may apply for the record.
Biological Parent Contact Preference Form Biological Parent Medical History Form Application to Request a Noncertified Copy of Original Certificate of Birth Prior to Adoption
Applications for a noncertified copy of the original certificate of birth prior to adoption, contact preference and medical history forms will only be accepted via mail or in-person at the Bureau of Health Statistics. These forms will not be filed at any other issuing office.
Iowa Department of Public Health
Bureau of Health Statistics
Lucas State Office Building
1st Floor, 321 E. 12th Street
Des Moines, Iowa 50319-0075
The upcoming Why Repatriation is Important livestream event will focus on repatriation of the children who died at Indian boarding schools as well as the healing that needs to take place in tribal communities to overcome the intergenerational trauma associated with Indian boarding school experiences.
Across the United States, many former Indian boarding schools have cemeteries on their grounds, including the former Carlisle Industrial Boarding School in Pennsylvania. The graves of deceased Indian children buried at Carlisle fall under the control of the U.S. Army, which has taken the position that the graves of Indian children buried there are not subject to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). Many Indian law experts disagree with the U.S. Army’s stance.
The 1st time I spoke out on any Native issue was the #BabyVeronica case involving a Cherokee child, trafficked across state lines in a for-profit adoption.
— tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ (@zhaabowekwe) March 2, 2022
Media coverage of her Cherokee dad, of her tribe, of her right to both was *atrocious*. Ignorance, racism, clear bias. https://t.co/VZml4eftwo
⚖️#SCOTUS agreed to hear 4 consolidated cases that test #ICWA provisions. Here is @najournalists ICWA reporting guide. ‘Cases may be newsworthy, however, the way journos report can encourage anti-Indigenous sentiments & negative behavior toward tribes.’ - https://t.co/GZUXugx6vM pic.twitter.com/tHwnA2JvSC
— Native American Journalists Association (@najournalists) February 28, 2022
@DrPhil hosted a show painting #ICWA, the law enacted to slow the decades-long theft of Native kids, & Veronica’s tribe badly. @NPR was just as biased. Journalistic integrity & the powerful money interests backing ICWA attacks, nowhere in sight.
— tara houska ᔖᐳᐌᑴ (@zhaabowekwe) March 2, 2022
This blog posted many times about BABY V and the propaganda and misinformation and outright lies about the Baby Veronica case and how (adoption) trafficking in children (like her case) was rampant among affluent whites. Dr. Phil "Hollywoodized" Adoption Propaganda is what I called it. TL Hentz, Blog Editor
A northern Alberta First Nation says 169 potential graves have been found using ground-penetrating radar at the site of a former residential school. https://t.co/I1H2S0JHsy
— CBC Indigenous (@CBCIndigenous) March 1, 2022
This is a developing story. Watch “ICT’s Newscast with Aliyah Chavez” on Tuesday, March 1 at 5 p.m. EST for more.
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear Texas v. Haaland, a case seeking to overturn the Indian Child Welfare Act.
The high court said Monday morning it would take the case reviewing the 1978 federal law. Many call the Indian Child Welfare Act a gold standard for child welfare policy.
A federal appeals court in April upheld the law and Congress' authority to enact it. But the judges also found some of the law's provisions unconstitutional, including preferences for placing Native American children with Native adoptive families and in Native foster homes.
“The far-reaching consequences of this case will be felt for generations,” stated the National Indian Child Welfare Association in a statement. “In a coordinated, well-financed, direct attack, Texas and other opponents aim to simultaneously exploit Native children and undermine tribal rights.”
ICWA has long been championed by tribal leaders to preserve Native families and cultures involving Native children, and it places reporting and other requirements on states.
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Film Festival
Who Tells The Story Matters. Creating Systemic Change through the Arts and Media
Native Women in Film & Television in All Media, Red Nation International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA/USA
March 20-24, 2022
https://filmfreeway.com/NativeWomeninFILMFestival
https://www.nativewomeninfilm.com/
(virtual)
Native Women in Film & Television in All Media – Film Festival. The first and largest representation of Native and Indigenous Women Filmmakers. NWIFTV is a program of Red Nation Celebration Institute. NWIFTV serves under its fiscal partner Red Nation Celebration Institute The Creative Enterprise by Natives delivering to all people the stories that shape our world. RNCI the pioneer longest standing Native Women-Led Indigenous Media, Arts & Cultural nonprofit in the City of Los Angeles, Empowering Native and Indigenous Storytellers.
Film Submissions Open until March 7, 2022: https://filmfreeway.com/NativeWomeninFILMFestival
Schedule & Tickets: https://www.nativewomeninfilm.com/festival-schedule-2022/
