#indian children welfare act

[latestnews69]

'We thought it was a ball' - the bombs killing and maiming Indian children

Over the last three decades, at least 565 children in the Indian state of West Bengal have been injured or killed by home-made bombs, a BBC Eye investigation has found.

So what are these deadly devices and how are they linked to political violence in West Bengal? And why are so many Bengali children paying the price?

On a bright summer morning in May 1996, six boys from a slum in Kolkata, the capital of India's West Bengal state, stepped out to play cricket in a narrow alley.

Their shantytown, nestled in the middle-class neighbourhood of Jodhpur Park, thrummed with life. It was a holiday - voting day in a general election.

Nine-year-old Puchu Sardar, one of the boys, grabbed a cricket bat and quietly slipped past his sleeping father. Soon, the cracking noise of bat meeting ball echoed through the alley.

A ball batted out of the boundaries of their makeshift pitch sent the boys searching for it in a small garden nearby. There, in a black plastic bag, they found six round objects.

They looked like cricket balls someone had left behind, and the boys returned to the game with their spoils.

One of the "balls" from the bag was bowled at Puchu who struck it with his bat.

A deafening explosion tore through the alley. It was a bomb.

As the smoke lifted and neighbours rushed outside, they found Puchu and five of his friends sprawled on the street, their skin blackened, clothes scorched, bodies torn.

Screams pierced the chaos.

Seven-year-old Raju Das, an orphan raised by his aunt, and seven-year-old Gopal Biswas died of their injuries. Four other boys were wounded.

Puchu narrowly survived, having suffered serious burns and shrapnel wounds to his chest, face and abdomen.

He spent over a month in hospital. When he came home he had to use kitchen tongs to remove shrapnel still lodged in his body because his family had run out of money to pay for any more medical care

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[jeannereames]

It's good to see George Takei put his name and influence to spreading word of the renewed threat to US tribal culture and continuity--and the fundamental importance of ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act). Why it matters. Still.

Thank you, George. Maybe this will land on more people's radar now.

[starlightshadowsworld]

ICWA literally just got saved from the chopping block and is being broken.

Chanel is a native baby who's mother was murdered by Chanel's father.

ICWA states a native child is to be looked by their community.

But Chanel, instead of being under the care of her grandmother is with a foster family in Alaska.

A very racist foster family.

Who fantasise about putting her work.

Dehumanise her by never calling her name and comparing her to a dog and Mowgli from the jungle book.

There is a petition here to request actions be made to bring Chanel back home to her grandmother.

Please sign.

This poor child deserves so much better than these awful people who compare her to animals and don't even try to hide their disdain for her people.

These people are actively breaking ICWA, which is protected by federal law.

Chanel is a baby and my heart breaks for her.

[averytiredbitch]

Bring Chanel Home

BRING CHANEL HOME

^ that is a link to the petition to bring Chanel home and away from her abusive foster family

[musicinthebranchesoftheveins]

Here's a Reddit thread that looks into another aspect of oil+anti-ICWA stances.

I know I already made a post about this. But ICWA is LITERALLY being challenged by a white couple that wants to adopt indigenous children to erase their culture and Christianize them. The tribe, whom has a say in who can take their children, is like "Nah, we don't want our youth Christianized like you tride last time"

And the lawyer that's helping the white couple try to overturn ICWA (so that they can erase the cultures of indigenous children) is doing it pro-bono (which means he's not charging the couple anything).

AND that lawyer is a big time lawyer whose clients are usually oil and gas industries. He's literally fighting for indigenous children to be ripped from their tribes and culture so there's less indigenous people to protest big oil destroying their sacred land.

-fae

[neechees]

Hey if you're from the U.S and you care about Native kids & ICWA, The National Indian Child Welfare Association needs your help before September 17th 2024

Text SIGN PBAZHN to 50409 to send this letter to your US House Representative

Please support H.R. 9076 when it reaches the house floor. Native families deserve support from the federal government, especially when it comes to keeping Native children with Native families.

This bill includes critical provisions for tribes that receive funding under the Title IV-B child welfare programs, such as:

- Increasing funding for tribal agencies and courts.

- Reducing administrative burdens.

- Enhancing data collection on Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases in states.

Please sign and share, it takes about 30 seconds to use resist bot. Thank you!

[theivorybilledwoodpecker]

So my post on Oklahoma making it legal to take indigenous children from their parents without tribal consent is blowing up, and I'm glad people are horrified. But what I need people to know is that this might happen on a national level.

The Supreme Court is debating overturning the Indian Child Welfare Act.

What this act does is give Native American and Alaska Native tribes and nations control over the foster and adoption placement of their children. To overturn it would be to say tribes and nations aren't sovereign, and it would also allow the U.S. government to forcibly assimilate indigenous children into other cultures.

Please:

Spread the word about what is happening.

Read online news articles about this; the more traffic on those articles, the more likely the press is to write more articles.

If there are protests in your area, join them.

If there are indigenous nations or tribes in your area, ask them how you can help.

Donate to indigenous rights organizations like Native American Rights Fund.

Write to your representatives.

If ICWA falls, keep all of the above up. Don't just shrug and think it's over.

[olowan-waphiya]

Supreme Court leaves Indian Child Welfare Act intact - https://www.npr.org/2023/06/15/1182121455/indian-child-welfare-act-supreme-court-decision?origin=NOTIFY

[thatspectacularpigeon]

Listen up please

This is incredibly important.

The united States government has been trying to remove the protections of native children mainly via possibly overturning the ICWA (Indian Child Welfare Act)

This will allow white families to continue to take native children from their lands their family and their culture just like they did for centuries before the ICWA was passed.

This is both incredibly important and incredibly personal as my family was permanently harmed because of children being taken away from their families.

So please spread awareness about this and I have a link below that you can go to the first Nations website learn more about this and and write a response that they can use about how we should be saving the ICWA

[juniperharvest]

turning reblogs off. Due date passed. The National Indian Child Welfare Association needs your help before September 17th 2024

Text SIGN PBAZHN to 50409 to send this letter to your US House Representative

Please support H.R. 9076 when it reaches the house floor. Native families deserve support from the federal government, especially when it comes to keeping Native children with Native families. This bill includes critical provisions for tribes that receive funding under the Title IV-B child welfare programs, such as: - Increasing funding for tribal agencies and courts. - Reducing administrative burdens. - Enhancing data collection on Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases in states.

Please sign and share, it takes about 30 seconds to use resist bot. Thank you!

[warcrimecryptid]

The Protect ICWA Campaign was established by the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the National Congress of American Indians, The Association on American Indian Affairs, and the Native American Rights Fund. The forced assimilation of Native people in the U.S. is nothing new and it has always targeted children. That's why over 40 years ago, the Indian Child Welfare Act was put into place. The number one goal of the ICWA was to curb the generational harm caused by Native children being separated from their families and tribal communities.

What many people may not understand is that Native children being separated from their families is a modern issue, impacting far too many Native children to this day. And come November 9, the law working to protect these children from being forcibly removed from their homes and families will be challenged in front of the Supreme Court of the United States.

Click on the link to this petition. Help stop forced assimilation and the theft of Native Children.

Your silence makes you complicit in Native genocide.

[jeannereames]

ICWA STANDS!!!!

[blanket-burrito-protocol]

With the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which has kept Native children from being purposefully removed from Native families into non-Native foster families since 1978, being reevaluated in the US Supreme Court, it is at risk of being greatly weakened and undoing decades of work to stop the systematic erasure of Native cultural identity.

(It may also re-designate the term "Indian" in the bill to mean a racial classification rather than political, reversing precedent with regard to tribal sovereignty. Native tribes must remain independent entities in the law rather than just a race to protect their rights to self-governance.)

The Lakota People's Law Project is asking US citizens to ask their state lawmakers to enact similar legislation at the state level which codifies the rights and protections ICWA gives to Native children should it be weakened in the Supreme Court. This is not protection for the ICWA itself, although they do have action you can take for that on their website as well. In the link is a pre-written email which you can personalize and easily send to your state lawmakers.

Thanks for your time. :)

[mostly-mundane-atla]

SUPREME COURT UPHELD ICWA IN A 7-2 VOTE!!! I could cry.

[gwydionmisha]

The Indian Child Welfare Act prevents the kidnapping of indigenous children to be raised by white people, and the adoption of indigenous children away from their community by non-natives, activities which have been part of the US Government's genocide against Native Americans.

[beatrice-otter]

Protect Native American Children

The US and Canada have a horrifying history of enacting cultural genocide (and sometimes physical genocide) by removing Native American/First Nations/Alaska Native children from their families, first to residential schools and then to put them in white families. In the US, this was mostly stopped by the Indian Child Welfare Act in 1978, which said that if Native American children were removed from their families they needed to be placed with other Native American families. ICWA is being challenged in the Supreme Court as we speak, and the Trump-packed Supreme Court is highly likely to overturn it. This would be a disaster. However, it could be mitigated by legislation at the state level. The Lakota Law Project has a widget for you to email your state Governor and state legislators asking them to put in place state laws to protect Native American children should ICWA fall. comments Comment? https://ift.tt/WI9ZGNp