over four times more likely to have had their children removed than Black heterosexual mothers, who already experience greater rates of family separation compared to white parents.
Indigenous parents in the U.S. are at risk of losing the few protections they still have from separation by the family regulation system.
After decades of intentional separation of Native American families by the U.S. government, the Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in 1978 to provide protections to Native American children and families.
Since then, the ICWA has been weakened, and attacks on the law by attorneys and adoption agencies have continued. This past week, the U.S.