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Martyn Garcia-Adoptive couple v. Baby Girl- SCOTUS case Podcast…

- - - - Neglect was defined by not being in a nuclear family back then
        
        Trend: Widespread Native American children put into foster care, ⅓
        
        Why did people decide it was okay to foster Indian children to white families?
        
        Why was ICWA passed
        
        In the 1970s, prior to the passage of the Act, congressional hearings were held. The
        hearings revealed terrible abuses, indicating a national pattern of wholesale public and
        private removal of Indian children from their homes which resulted in the undermining of
        Indian families and had a devastating impact on tribes across the country. At the national
        level the following results were compiled:
        • Indian children were placed in foster care or were adopted at three times the
        rate of non-Indian children.
        • Approximately 25-35% of all Indian children were removed from their homes
        and placed in non-Indian foster homes and adoptive homes or institutions.
        
        Why are Native Americans Mistreated
        
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        https://www.nicwa.org/families-service-providers/
- - - - There is a housing crisis in Indian country. Despite the Indian Housing Authority's (IHAs) recent efforts, the need for adequate housing on reservations remains acute. One legislator deplored the fact that “there are 90,000 homeless or under housed Indian families, and that 30% of Indian housing is overcrowded and less than 50% of it is connected to a public sewer.” (March 8, 2004, Indian Country Today).
        
        While most Americans take running water, telephones, and electricity for granted, many reservation families live without these amenities. On a seriously stretched budget, utilities are viewed as luxuries compared to food and transportation. Overcrowding, substandard dwellings, and lack of utilities all increase the potential for health risk, especially in rural and remote areas where there is a lack of accessible healthcare.
      - http://www.ncai.org/about-tribes
    - - About 22% of our country's 5.2 million Native Americans live on tribal lands (2010 U.S. Census). Living conditions on the reservations have been cited as "comparable to Third World," (May 5 2004, Gallup Independent). ... Typically, Tribal and Federal governments are the largest employers on the reservations.
    - - Typically, Tribal and Federal governments are the largest employers on the reservations. Many households are overcrowded and earn only social security, disability or veteran's income. The scarcity of jobs and lack of economic opportunity mean that, depending on the reservation, four to eight out of ten adults on reservations are unemployed. Among American Indians who are employed, many are earning below poverty wages (2005 BIA American Indian Population & Labor Force Report).
        
        The overall percentage of American Indians living below the federal poverty line is 28.2% (2008, American Indians Census Facts). The disparity for American Indians living below poverty on the reservations is even greater, reaching 38% to 63% in our service area (2006, National Center for Education Statistics, and other sources).
        
        Often, heads of household are forced to leave the reservation to seek work, and grandparents take on the role of raising their grandchildren. In order to survive, extended families pool their meager resources as a way to meet basic needs. The relative poverty still experienced by these blended families is best understood as the gap between the overall need and the need that goes unmet.
      - https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/native-americans-property-rights/492941/
- - - - 7th Amendment
        
        In Suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
      - 11th amendment
        
        The Judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by Citizens of another State, or by Citizens or Subjects of any Foreign State.
      - 1st Amendment
        
        Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
      - https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution