SCOTUS Case on Separations Could Affect AZ Other Native Families / Public News Service
A case before the U.S. Supreme Court has Native Americans concerned the outcome could revive a centuries-old practice of separating indigenous children from their families. The court will consider the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law aimed at ending the practice of placing native children in nonnative homes or sending them to "Indian boarding schools" in Arizona and other states designed to "civilize" them. ...