Cherokee Nation father Dusten Brown and his family in Oklahoma. Photo Courtesy National Indian Child Welfare Association
Some Christian evangelicals are siding with a non-Indian couple that wants to adopt a Cherokee Nation girl and take her from her Cherokee family in Oklahoma. Groups like the Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare and Home Forever have long complained about the Indian Child Welfare Act. The media attention to the Cherokee case is giving them a bigger platform for their cause. “ICWA unfairly allows our child welfare and judicial systems to treat children differently if they happen to be eligible for membership in a federally recognized tribe,” Johnston Moore, the executive director of Home Forever, told Religion News Service. So far, Congress has not been receptive to calls to amend ICWA, which became law in 1978. Get the Story:
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