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"If the white man wants to live in peace with the Indian, he can live in peace... Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. All men were made by the same Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers. The Earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.
Let me be a free man, free to travel, free to stop, free to work, free to trade where I choose my own teachers, free to follow the religion of my fathers, free to think and talk and act for myself, and I will obey every law, or submit to the penalty."
Heinmot Tooyalaket ( Chief Joseph), Nez Perce Leader
The act, passed in 1978, protects Native children by keeping them connected to their families.
The Supreme Court decision on Haaland vs. Brackeen was handed down on Thursday, June 15, 2023.
In a 7-2 vote, the justices affirmed the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act and voted to leave ICWA intact. The challengers cited ICWA as “against federal authority, an infringement on state sovereignty and discrimination based on race,” and the justices wisely rejected all these claims. This is a major victory for Native American children, tribes and federal Indian law.
US Supreme Court Reaffirms Tribal Sovereignty
Major Decision Will Help Keep Native Children and Parents Together
Digital Diversity Day Series - Critical Race Theory from the Lens of Indigenous & Native American
Carlisle Indian Industrial School was the First 1st Government Run school.
Students were forced to cut their hair, change their names, stop speaking their Native languages, convert to Christianity, and were traumatized by corporal punishment, solitary confinement, neglect, and abuse.
Gwen Carr- Director
Carlisle Indian School Project
Carlisle, Pa
Create and build a museum and heritage center near the original school site to share the far-reaching impact of Carlisle Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
Parents lost children. Tribes lost members of their community and tribal traditions. That trauma has a long-lasting impact. Native people have been living that reality for generations.
Exposure to ACES, changes how adults parent their own children, thus perpetuating a cycle.
Wampanoag leader Wamsutta AKA Frank James was silenced (1971) about giving a speech on the uncomfortable truth of the 1st Thanksgiving during the Celebrations organized by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Wamsutta , along with his followers refused to be part of the celebration.
WAMSUTTA (FRANK B.) JAMES, WAMPANOAG
West Chester PA NAACP
PO Box 196, West Chester, PA 19381-0196, USA
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