CNNW CNN Newsroom January 7, 2012
the full blessing of a judge. at the heart of all of this, a federal law that makes it illegal to break up native american families. george howell digging into this case for us. he joins us. explain how this girl's biological dad was able to do this after two years? >> dustin brown is the biological father and he used this law child the indian child welfare act. it's basically designed to keep indian families together, to keep them from being broken up. he is enrolled in the cherokee nation, his daughter, partially native american. so through the courts, he was able to get his daught...