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One of the most complete surviving collections of Civil War artifacts belonging to an individual Mississippi soldier is the T. Otis Baker Collection at the Mississippi Department of Archives and History. The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a 40-year old remedial statute that protects Indian children, families and tribes. Remember that EU-law provides that once the union citizen has exercised Treaty Rights(ie has left her country of origin to reside in another member state)upon return to his or her country of origin, she carry her community law right with her.

In an unprecedented ruling that threatens Native American children and families, U.S. District Court Judge Reed ‘Connor in the Northern District of Texas declared the federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) unconstitutional in an opinion in Brackeen et. al. v. Zinke, filed October 4, 2018.

Emboldened by the Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl decision in 2013, these anti-ICWA forces–led by the adoption industry, religious coalitions, and a conservative think tank–have spent years bringing forth suit after suit in courts throughout the country, sometimes even using identical briefs in different forums, all in the attempt to have ICWA declared unconstitutional.

I was told no i need to show 1 year comprehensive sickness insurance or either i withdraw my application from the embasssy or i show a job offer for my wife from ireland or face refusal. The Partnership for Native Children refuses to go back to those the days where tribal children were removed simply because of cultural misunderstandings, for …