Big Win for Tribal Sovereignty: Indian Child Welfare Act Upheld by Supreme Court in Surprise Ruling 

I hope this is only the beginning of Justice for our Native brothers and sisters. From my research of history what was done to Native American peoples was absolutely systematic genocide. All the broken treaties, stealing of land with resources and relocations to barren lands was and is inexcusable.

In Canada, as a nation we do need reparations for our indigenous people as well. It’s time we taught their history.

Why the hell is Clarence 🤬 Thomas still on the court and weighing in on cases like this that are clearly supported by his billionaire conservative benefactors?

Impeach Clarence Thomas now

Love You Rebecca Nagle! Keep on Writing and bringing awareness to Native Sovereignty!!🥰❤

Small steps Big Victories for all

As a scoop survivor stolen in genocide in 1975 from Standing Rock this feels like such a win. Unfortunately the occupational state of canada (where I was scooped too) still steals 70% of Indigenous kids in so called canada.

Great respect always to the 1rst nations.

What wonderful news to hear! ^_^

Corporations and big oil want access to the land and resources

NGL, I was positive that this court was going to overturn ICWA. For all my problems with Gorsuch, he has consistently supported Native treaty rights, and I have to think that he's the one who turned Roberts and Barrett. Broken clocks, etc. etc...

Thank you for covering this.

Thank you for covering this! Very important for our people to know!

These are the kind of liberal cases we need to keep bringing to this conservative court. Make them say, it's the law.

Give the native Indians all the rights to their own beliefs, restore their lands and give them back their children that were stolen from them. Reparations must be paid. Thank you 💛

I'm pleasantly surprised, but grateful that the court did the right thing

This is sweeeeeet relief!!!!

I strongly recommend the podcast "This Land." Rebecca Nagle is brilliant and does a great job laying out the issues of Native rights and keeps the episodes interesting and informative!

Awesome!

Yesssss 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🥰🥰🥰🥰

YES!!

Thank you 🌎 ✊️ 🗽 🌹

Thank you Democracy Now, this is really important!

The right outcome of the ruling. Native Sovereignty is essential to the tribes.

A truly historic event , YAY Day !! 🇺🇲🦅🇺🇲

I honestly would like to see foster and adoptions reduced to 0%, not just Native Americans, all children. Fix the societal ill that cause familial breakdown. Invest in good education , good paying jobs with benifits, comprehensive affordable healthcare, comprehensive sexual education so there are no unwanted children, relationship skills and support systems, affodable housing, affordable healthy food, clean and healthy environments. But unfortunately, as Ms Nagle, alluded to, private for-profit 'adoption' agencies and private corporation have finacial agendas hidden behind privacy. The adoption industry in the USA is $24.7 billion this year. That isn't noble, that selling humans for profit. That is the definition of human trafficking

I had no idea just how horrible this situation was. I'm glad something is being done about it.

In some way; Could these arguments apply to African American children? That last part sounds like a possibility. I was taken from family and never returned. I was at the time a baby. Basically raised by Caucasians. My family never got a chance to "fight" for my "rights" Can this ruling possibly help other families in these cases going forward? This ruling protects Native Families from government involvements in families. Its like solidifying their rights as citizens and a separate nation within a nation. Could the African American Descendants of Slaves make a claim of sorts to, protect their families? A stolen "nation" within a nation? Our families have no such "protections"

Policies do nothing in the day to day life of the people. I spent 20 years of my career in and around the court system and was the Office of Public Defense Social Worker involved in CPS Dependency court proceedings. I watched indigenous families face accusations by US governing bodies in not just the dependency court but also other court proceedings and oversight bodies. In each and every case resulting in the indigenous entanglement with the court system, US accountability NEVER rose to the acknowledgment of the ongoing generational trauma that is foundationally maintained through through an elitist stance in the judgment of the issues plaguing the Native American population. The contextual reality affecting familial and interpersonal dynamics of the people has been forever altered by the US genocide and segregationist policies imposed over 120 years ago. ICWA was and is an impotent response to a human atrocity still resonating in the hearts of the Native American people who were and are forced to learn the inevitable effect of meaningless US promises. Make no mistake, the trauma and genocide continues through the stressors imposed by agreements the elite of this nation make with about as much follow-through as the treaties that began this obliteration of Native American customs and ways.

So happy for this good news. There's been so precious little of it.

Happy Birthday 2pac and Native Children Across the globe 🌎

Haven't we done or took enough from Nativie Indigenous already? Shame, Shame, Shame on us.

Well it is very sad Native Americans having to still fight for what is their heritage rightfully theirs as their ancestors the original people on these lands. Maybe someday every wrong done by corrupt humans past present and active will be made right by some divine supreme being or some sort of divine intervention.☮️🌺

We respect Court Decision to respect the Native Peoples Heritage and Ownership of their Motherland Americas

Was so happy to see this ruling. And was surprised.

Thank you for reporting on this monumental decision. Why is it not on the news? WHERE is CNN? HOW COME RACHEL MADDOWS DOES NOT TALK ABOUT THIS AT ALL?

Reminds me of that book "Through Yupik Eyes" i read in high school, about a native that was adopted and taken outta Alaska... Free from the chains of demons!!!!! Wooohoo!!!

Would the ruling have been the same as little as 6 months ago? The activist judges have done so much damage to our country and political system, its nice to see a win for indigenous people.

Honour all Children!!❤❤

For the future!!! For the future!!! Protect the American Indian children so that they and their children’s be my grandchildren will one day be sovereign and have the power to be truly it’s own citizen in allyship with the great US!!! USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 USA!!!

Excellent move!... Their self esteem as a proud nation was diminished because of this interference bordering on kidnapping especially, when adoptive parents Did not give them enough love...and attention as a child.

Leave them alone. Stop tearing ALL FAMILIES APART.

After all these times, why are they still calling native Americans "Indian" when that is clearly wrong and inappropriate to them as a race and nation?

🎶this land is my land🎵this land IS MY land🎵from the graves of natives🎵in the gulf stream waters🎶

Tribal Leaders For Government!!!💯

Good morning everyone

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🤍Save the children,because the earth was borrowed to us from them.🤍. DO Not Only Save Them, But Stand UP For Them In ALL Situations When Nescesary🤍...

I am surprised SCOTUS didn’t vote this out with the usual 5-4. Thank God the indigenous people won.

A great move from the Roberts Court which had only a decade earlier ruled against the Voting Rights Act as if preclearance had arisen out of a vacuum so they could claim it was “not conducive to current needs”.

Justice Gorsuch wrote a quite eloquent concurring opinion, while the scurrilous duo of Alito and Thomas--to no one's surprise--dissented, placing themselves squarely on the side of those seeking to erase indigenous peoples.

Wasn’t worried much. Glad for outcome.

👍 Common sense ruling from SCOTUS

How gracious of 5 white men and one white woman to grant 😮freedoms to native americans, after so many years. 😊

Finally! Hurray!

I thought kinship was law, family was first option

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Hurrah... finally respect for native people

Love for my sister wont change

I'm frankly not surprised by this outcome, particularly Gorusch's participation. If you look at his time on the bench, everytime Native American issues have come before the court he has sided WITH the Tribes

YESSS!!!! 🤩

It needs to be noted that Gibson Dunn is the law firm that was appointed to prosecute Steven Donziger. Interesting to see them pop up again on the wrong side of a case relating to Tribal Sovereignty.

how about upholding treaties?

THEY ALSO NEED REPARATIONS FOR THE WAY THEY WERE BEING HUNTED TO NEAR EXTINCTION BY THE U.S. GOVT .

❤God bless ❤

It is shocking that adoptive parents are not thinking of the best interests of the child.

they said russia took ukrainians kids away. now i know where they learned that from, America!

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And this system Department of Human services is not supposed to take money for adoption either.

Its a start

Hope...somewhat restored

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Can someone please tell me for someone who does not know I visited the United States in 2019 and when I went to Walmart in page, Utah they had a wall full of photos of Native American kids that were missing now where they missing or did they Run away just wondering?????

If corporate lawyers are representing nonnative clients then that means they are following ambulances, which would never want A.I. to input legal library correctly into AI data banks, so the outcome could take in consideration real laws, constitutional, state--historical set up, rather than monies convoluted self interest.

The decision was a surprise because it was expected the court would rule in the best interest of the children; instead it ruled based on the tribal nation sovereignty placing the welfare of the children irrelevant to the issue. I hope it also coincided with the best for the children instead of politics.

Beware of where u receive your knowledge and from who.

Indian native will be able to adopt or given first choice.

Set Up A Shoulin Monestry!!! @shi Heng Yi

Just adopt them to Asian families👍🏿💯💯💯

It's time for us to receive reparations and sovereignty as well .

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I just happen to be Pocohontos and Ida. It did not just happen yesterday. My sovereignty was violated last night when Lying Larry had the DMPD and that girl and gay cowboy stole my bag with my laundry in it.

WOW!….hopefully the dark copper colored indigenous North America Indian is next!!!

This has happened to Black American children in 2000

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JULY 2020 SUPREME COURT JUDGE TREATIES BINDING OKLAHOMA

I have written many Articles on International judiciary system Hardvard Law school Would give me law degree Oxford University of law Would give me Doctorate in law

When it comes to law and lawyers children and money is where you find it. Cash cows with a monthly check. Remember were talking middle man protecting his interest money making formula.

"merely because the child is an Indian" -Justices Alito and Thomas communicate the entirety of their character, in a single word. "Indian"? Really? Hearing Canadians refer to native indigenous peoples as "First Nations", shows how far our U.S. residents have to travel, to encounter any semblance of cultural maturity. (and no, Clarence, Indians are from Near East Asia, not America)

The gifts for fighting for the Confederacy and black slavery.

and don't even get me get started on the transgender kids! Jeeez!

Fantastic news

The state rarely follows the law..

What happens if the child isn't in roll in the tribe. What happens then

Why the deception? Why substitute fascism for conservatism? Surely it’s plain to see, that a certain “Conservative” party has a large number identifiable characteristics with the Fascist ideology.

We get crumbs and call it a victory

Freaking Criminals

Now they need to find the 18,000 missing migrant children

Dear latching I like to tell you guys that American Indian is the first people who live in the us

Lord have mercy they still doing thatt leaave them alone what. Kindvof christians are you