Child Welfare In Indian Country

From the article, ¨Child Welfare In Indian Country.¨ It talks about the court is trying to take more action on what is really going on and how it helps the government to try and take out our native americans, not only for our families they need it but for the whole Native American community. In the begging of the story named Child Removals Among American Indians And Alaska Natives it talks about how, ¨The removal of indigenous children from their cultures by colonial governments is recognized by the United Nations as a form of cultural genocide. The trauma is recognized, pervasive, and long term. Yet the practice continues in the United States despite federal laws designed to end it.¨ Not only do they all want to be left alone but we have always been tough to all be one community so all of our ancestors have good ways that they can guide of things that are trying to have many of there native american communities to never lose their culture or what they had learned in their childhood. By 1976 many of the Native American children that are in foster care have been out of home care, but are still struggling with what they really need to be fighting for.

Cross, T. L. (2014, December 1). Child welfare in Indian country: A story of painful removals: Health Affairs Journal. Health Affairs. Retrieved February 28, 2022, from https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1158

Native American foster care needs improvement

From the story ¨Native American foster care needs improvement - Other Opinion¨ it was a very interesting little story because it talked about the elders and their ages. It also talks about how many children are pulled out of their culture to be put in a foster home not only from their community but also from the family and their heritage. They have also sent many of the Native American to white foster homes, which means they are away from family and friends. Like it says in paragraph 5 it says, ¨No one's hands are clean. The state needs to work even harder to place children in safe Native American foster homes.¨ Talking about the safety of the native american children are the things that many of us Native Americans worry about, nowadays people of color don't care much about the native americans they have so much hate but for what? It is also talking about trying to find many different ways that foster care in native american pueblos can be more improved or can be more stable with what is going on or how they are trying to make it a better place.

"Native American foster care needs improvement - Other Opinion." Madison Daily Leader, The (SD), sec. Opinions, 11 Apr. 2013, p. 3. NewsBank: America's News Magazines, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AMNP&docref=news/145A701CFA3F7BD8. Accessed 30 Sept. 2021.

Violence against Native American Women and Children

From the story ¨Violence against Native American Women and Children,¨ it was very interesting because it talks about our ¨social health issues that have been impacted by the changes in traditional lifestyles, marginalization, underfunded initiatives.¨ It also talks about the different behaviors they are having towards native american children and women, it says that there are many children and women that are out there dealing with difficult behavior. The different colonization and the land that we have is very important to native americans, talks about the violence that happened and the different boarding schools there were. The most important thing was knowing the struggle and the difficult times many children had gone through. At the beginning of the article it talks about, ¨historical trauma and violence against Native Americans, and in particular violence against Native women and children. This entry will begin with a discussion of colonization and will include an explanation of historical influences, as well as present-day factors that may contribute to domestic violence, sexual assault, and child abuse in tribal communities.¨

Bubar, Roe W., and Irene S. Vernon. “Violence against Native American Women and Children.” Social Life and Issues, Revised Edition, Facts On File, 2019. American Indian History, online.infobase.com/Auth/Index?aid=18626&itemid=WE43&articleId=184633. Accessed 13 Oct. 2021.

New Mexico pledges support for tribal adoptions in State Law

In the article, ¨New Mexico pledges support for tribal adoptions in State Law¨ it talks about how the new leader of New Mexico’s Child Protection Department pledges to restore the agency’s credibility following a series of scandals under her predecessor. It talks about how they federal is letting prioritizing tribal members can adopt Native American Children, in the online speech to some 300 Native American Child Welfare the court handles child abuse and neglect cases as well as foster care adoptions. There are many children out there that are dealing with child abuse, neglect and family issues not many Native American child will be able to get adopted due to the issues that they are dealing with. In the article it also talks about how, ¨Tribes and the U.S. Department of the Interior say the law protects Native American families and cultures. Opponents, including a white couple that adopted a Native child, contend the law is racist.¨ There are so many Native Americans out there that are put with other race of color or there own kind, I think that all Native Americas should be able to get adopted by there own kind of people instead of just playing them with any family. There is also many child that are dealing with abuse with their family or in their foster home in the article is says, ¨the numbers were eventually corrected showing a smaller rise in abuse.¨

Attanasio, Ceadar. New Mexico pledges support for tribal adoptions in state law. 2021, 13 October.

Native American adoptions law

In the article ¨Decision strikes key parts of Native American adoptions law,¨ it talks about, ¨Parts of a federal law giving Native American families preference in the adoption of Native American children were effectively struck down.¨ They had also talked about the defeat for tribal leaders who said the 1978 law was important to protecting their families and culture, also the Native American families or licensed “Indian foster homes'' violate constitutional equal protection requirements. They are trying to give Native Americans more rights to adopt and how they all are trying to fight for their rights of adopting your own tribe or your own kind of people, making sure that all the children need the same care and respect as everyone else. There are many foster care systems. Native American children placed in homes with people of color or other families that they don't know. In the article it also talks about how the, ¨full implications of the decision on adoptive children in this and future cases were not immediately clear. Some of the key points were the result of 8-8 votes. The lack of a majority meant the lower court’s ruling prevailed on those points, but that no binding precedent was set by the appeals court.¨ There were times where most families were broken apart because of the replacement of their children in there home, like is say in the article ¨In arguments last year, an Interior Department lawyer said Congress passed the law after finding that adoption standards at the state level were resulting in the breakup of American Indian families.¨

McGill, Kevin. Decision strikes Key Parts of Native American adoption laws. 2021, 6 April.

Trauma Impacts a Child's Development

In the podcast, ¨ How Trauma Impacts a Child's Development,¨ it talks about how trauma can impact everyone , even a child growing up. The first five years of life trauma hits very differently. The first five years of life for a child can be really different because the child's brains are barely growing. The trauma affects a child's way of learning fast and how they think and what their brain develops. There are kids/children out there that have a hard time talking to someone or being the kid that needs help, there are many negative feedbacks that the children can have because of trauma. There are ways that children don't feel too well about explaining things and asking for help when needed. There are many fears that children have due to trauma. There are different ways that it can be a very hard time learning and getting information.

O´Malley, Dawn. How Trauma Impacts a Child's Development. 2021,10 November.

PainFul Removers

In the article, ¨Child Welfare In Indian Country.¨ It talks about the court is trying to take more action on what is really going on and how it helps the government to try and take out our native americans, not only for our families they need it but for the whole Native American community. In the begging of the story named Child Removals Among American Indians And Alaska Natives it talks about how, ¨The removal of indigenous children from their cultures by colonial governments is recognized by the United Nations as a form of cultural genocide. The trauma is recognized, pervasive, and long term. Yet the practice continues in the United States despite federal laws designed to end it, (page number).¨ Not only do they all want to be left alone but we have always been tough to all be one community so all of our ancestors have good ways that they can guide of things that are trying to have many of there Native American communities to never lose their culture or what they had learned in their childhood. By 1976 many of the Native American children that are in foster care have been out of home care, but are still struggling with what they really need to be fighting for.

Cross, T. L. (2014, December 1). Child welfare in Indian country: A story of painful removals: Health Affairs Journal. Health Affairs. Retrieved February 28, 2022, from https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2014.1158