South Dakota inspired ICWA but still has high rate of Native children in foster care
The goal was to stabilize Native families and keep their children at home across the country. Yet history is repeating itself in South Dakota.
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The goal was to stabilize Native families and keep their children at home across the country. Yet history is repeating itself in South Dakota.
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50 years ago hundreds of Native Americans and Indigenous activists began a 71-day standoff against the U.S. government at Wounded Knee on the Pine Ridge reservation, fighting for Native American recognition and rights. Here is their story and legacy.
The world had largely forgotten about Native American people by the early 1970s, said Marcella Gilbert. Native populations had been decimated by disease and colonization; their sprawling homeland where ancestors
Fifty years after the Wounded Knee incident and the American Indian Movement, the children, grandchildren and beyond are still fighting the same issues.