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In 2018, not long after Hinojosa’s daughter turned one year old, a South Dakota Department of Social Services caseworker had come to Hinojosa’s home in Huron and taken her away.
In 2018, not long after Hinojosa’s daughter turned one year old, a South Dakota Department of Social Services caseworker had come to Hinojosa’s home in Huron and taken her away.
A mother used the Indian Child Welfare Act to win back her parental rights. Then they came for her second child.
By Jessica Lussenhop and Agnel Philip, photography by Jaida Grey Eagle for ProPublica ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter that spotlights wrongdoing around the country, to receive our stories in your inbox every week. When Cheyenne Hinojosa saw her husband, Jose, and her mother charging through the doors at the gas station where she worked, she assumed something terrible had...
After fighting to win back her parental rights, a young Native American mother prevailed. Then the state came for her second child.