Q&A With Cherokee Counsel for Baby Veronica Case: The Supreme Court Decision Will Impact Every Tribe in the Country

Brian Daffron
April 11, 2013
After the April 8 press conference at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino Tulsa in which the National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) and the Cherokee Nation shared the latest deve...

The Week That Was: The Big Stories in Indian Country

ICTMN Staff
October 28, 2012
It’s our roundup of all the big news coming out of Indian country: • FAREWELL: On Monday, Oglala Lakota leader Russell Means walked on , having lost a long battle against cancer...

South Carolina Supreme Court Rules to Keep Baby Veronica With Biological Father

Alysa Landry
August 07, 2012
Baby Veronica, a 2-year-old Cherokee girl adopted by non-Native parents in 2009 , will remain with her biological father following a South Carolina Supreme Court ruling filed July ...

Marty Two Bulls, 'Save Veronica from the Indians'

Daughters Given Up for Adoption Seek Knowledge About Their Culture and Birth Mothers

Mary Annette Pember
May 14, 2012
This year, for the first time in a long time, Mother’s Day didn’t bring with it the painful unknowns for Jeanne Winslow and Rachel Banks Kupcho of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe ...

NICWA Conference Addresses Challenges of the Indian Child Welfare Act

Mary Annette Pember
April 27, 2012
Terry Cross Although, the U.S...
NICWA, NACAC, NCAI, CWLA

An Open Letter to CNN and Anderson Cooper

CNN Editorial Board:...

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March 10, 2012
Walter Lamar

Drug Endangered Children in Indian Country

If you saw a toddler walking toward a busy intersection, would you wait before you intervened? Indian children in homes where adults are substance abusers are in similar danger. Tribal community members must step in before children are hurt or taken away from the community....

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January 11, 2012

Biological Father Regains Custody of Two-Year-Old Cherokee Daughter in Adoption Battle

ICTMN Staff
January 09, 2012
The biological father of a 2-year-old Cherokee girl, who was adopted by non-Native parents in 2009, has regained custody...

Indian Child Welfare Activist Receives Robert F. Kennedy Children’s Action Corps’ Award

ICTMN Staff
June 17, 2011
Terry Cross “Terry [Cross] is a quietly powerful man,” Ed Kelley, president and chief executive officer of the Robert F...

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