Lisa Herthel and Sid Perrault organized a gathering at the Duluth City
Hall on November 1, 2022 to raise awareness and to protest the attack on
the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). On November 9th, 2022, the United
States Supreme Court will hear a case that threatens tribal
sovereignty. Brackeen v. Haaland could overturn the Indian Child Welfare
Act (ICWA), a federal law enacted in 1978 in response to Native
children being removed from their families and communities, and adopted out to non-Native families, even when fit and willing relatives were available.
This case was brought by a white family in Texas who adopted a Diné child in 2017 and are fighting to adopt the child’s sibling. The family claims that ICWA is racially discriminatory and unconstitutional. This family, along with co-defendants, the states of Texas, Ohio, Louisiana, and Indiana, are represented by Gibson Dunn, a law firm who has also represented Energy Transfer Partners and Enbridge, two multi-national fossil fuel conglomerates. Why would a law firm that has represented Chevron, Shell, and Walmart be concerned with family court? If the Supreme Court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, overturning ICWA would likely lead to a broader attack on Indigenous sovereignty. The plaintiffs argue that tribal affiliation should be considered racial, rather than political designations, making ICWA unconstitutional, and opening the door to dismantle tribal sovereignty which benefits the fossil fuel industry as well as other extractive industries, as it would do away with tribal consultation, and other “red tape” corporations must go through during their permitting process.
Indigenous resistance is powerful and big oil is attempting to dismantle Indigenous families and tribal sovereignty in the name of corporate profits.
Please sign the petition asking President Biden and the Department of Justice to uphold ICWA and tribal sovereignty here: https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa...
Learn more about ICWA and this Supreme Court Case from Lakota Law Project here: https://lakotalaw.org/news/2021-09-17/icwa-sovereignty
Listen to the podcast from This Land to learn about the genocidal boarding schools and how they relate to this Supreme Court Case here: https://crooked.com/podcast/1-solomons-sword/
Read the Supreme Court briefings here: https://www.scotusblog.com/case.../cases/brackeen-v-haaland/
>> This article is reprinted from Migizi Will Fly.
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