Native American Indians are an endangered race _with that said-we all should conduct ourselves like so.
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In a distant memory, in the embryonic days of our Nation,we were ONE.
Indian tribes have long struggled against the assimilationist policies instituted by the United States which sought to destroy tribal cultures by removing Native American children from their tribes and families. In a stark example of such policies, the purpose articulated in the charter of the first boarding school in the 1890s on the Navajo reservation was “to remove the Navajo child from the influence of his savage parents.” The federal government continued its boarding school policy for over one hundred years. Countless lives give testimony to the harsh effects of that policy.
Later on, the federal government failed to protect Indian children from misguided and insensitive child welfare practices by state human service agencies, which resulted in the unwarranted removal of Indian children from their families and tribes. In fact, in the 1950s and 1960s, the federal government worked with non-Indian organizations, such as the Child Welfare League of America, to outright remove Indian children from their homes and place those children in non-Indian homes.
Statistical and anecdotal information show that Indian children who grow up in non-Indian settings become spiritual and cultural orphans. They do not entirely fit into the culture in which they are raised and yearn throughout their life for the family and tribal culture denied them as children. Many native children raised in non-Native homes experience identity problems, drug addiction, alcoholism, incarceration and, most disturbing, suicide.
In the 1960s, the federal government embarked on a new federal Indian policy of tribal self-determination. This new policy fosters tribal existence and self governance by allowing tribes to operate programs once operated solely by the federal government. It also increased federal services and benefits available to tribes to enhance their capabilities. Thus, tribes are now working to fully regain control of their destiny and that of their children.
In view of this new policy and the problems facing tribes as a result of the loss of their children, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was enacted in 1978. It established minimum federal jurisdictional, procedural and substantive standards aimed to achieve the dual purposes of protecting the right of an Indian child to live with an Indian family and to stabilize and foster continued tribal existence.
The Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) is a federal law that seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families. Congress passed ICWA in 1978 in response to the alarmingly high number of Indian children being removed from their homes by both public and private agencies. The intent of Congress under ICWA was to "protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families" (25 U.S.C. § 1902). ICWA sets federal requirements that apply to state child custody proceedings involving an Indian child who is a member of or eligible for membership in a federally recognized tribe.
ICWA is an integral policy framework on which tribal child welfare programs rely. It provides a structure and requirements for how public and private child welfare agencies and state courts view and cit their work to serve tribal children and families. It also acknowledges and promotes the role that tribal governments play in supporting tribal families, both on and off tribal lands. However, as is the case with many laws, proper implementation of ICWA requires vigilance, resources, and advocacy.
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Personal Statement:
"As a Native American Woman, I find myself easily and often offended, by the slanderous, misrepresentations that other races portray on our people, as a consequence of decades of misleading misinformation.
I also Feel that to some point- {It is The Responsibility Of the Teachers Of Our Nation } to Teach Our True History reguardless of individual Policies that may hinder them.
Our Country is based on the beliefs of: Freedom, Fairness, Individuality, and Unprejudentual Unity.
With that being said: It Is Our Natural Right as Humans, and It Is The Right of the People in this Nation -to not be misinformed as We The People have invested Trust in Believing that Our Children areBeing Told and will be taught the Truth and have every opportunity to know how and where they Originate from".
We Are Not Naturally Vengeful People, nor are we Savages who lack the ability of Understanding. The fact that we were already fighting One Another doesn't take away that genuinity as a People, because Human history shows that since the beginning of time ALL societies have more or less conquered things this way. Violence Is as old as theTime from which we all first Originated from.
However, when the Europeans first Flushed in to the America's to take over- The tribes began secretly Uniting, realizing their Oneness as a Heritage, and their common bond with their Struggles to Survive.
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The Indian Removal Act_
Columbus' famous letter of DISCOVERY
http://www.studyworld.com/indian_removal_act_of_1830.htm
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