All of us who care about preserving First Nations communities and their existence as nations should celebrate the U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the "Indian Child Welfare Act." #saveicwa #protecticwa #icwa
The challenge to the law would have eliminated protections that would keep indigenous children in indigenous communities.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/15/us/supreme-court-native-american-children-tribes.html #wearestillhere

@AliNahdee What Dustin^ said. I follow #Native #Indigenous #NDN #FirstNations and a ton of other hashtags that are in our lane (like #MMIW, #ProtectICWA, #NAHM, etc.) . We’re here. There are also like 3? Native instances if you want to move to one. Or you can see what folks are posting on them easily with an app like Ice Cubes for Mastodon.

@indigenous_commentator@stranger.social
@GottaLaff
@flexghost
Apart from the constantly abysmal news items that threaten all or part of humanity's livelihood, like the #ClimateCrisis or the #WarInUkraine, there is an almost weekly new onslaught on our hard-earned (by our forbears) #CivilRights.

This week, #IndigenousRights​ of children, the #NativeAmericans, are on the line at #SCOTUS.

It is good that #Zoomers have joined the fight:

https://stranger.social/@indigenous_commentator/110487519793891287

#ProtectICWA #SaveICWA

Forever Home

A Native woman fought for years to gain custody of her granddaughter. Now the case is before the Supreme Court—and could have consequences beyond child welfare.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/02/brackeen-haaland-scotus-indian-child-welfare-act-icwa/

#ProtectICWA #ICWA

Art credit to Metis artist: Natasha Donovan https://www.natashadonovan.com

@IndigenousCreatives@woodpecker.social Some more hashtags I have seen or used: #RedDressDay, #RockYourMocs, #NAHM (aka #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth), #OrangeShirtDay, #NationalAboriginalDay, #IndigenousPeoplesDay, #NativesVote, #ProtectICWA, #DefendTheSacred, #HonorTheTreaties, #SovereigntyBack, #FoodSovereignty, #NAGPRA, #Repatriation, #IdleNoMore, #LanguageBack, #LanguageRevitalization, #Powwow, #Powwows, #StopDisenrollment

A quick and evocative article by Tokata Iron Eyes and Chase Iron Eyes, a reminder that the genocide began with the conception of the US and Canada but has not stopped.

You need to start caring about our indigenous comrades.

If you care about justice: pay attention
If you care about anticolonialism: pay attention
If you care about fighting genocide: pay attention
If you care about the climate: pay attention

Native nations are the treasurers of the wisdom we need to care for the land here on Turtle Island, and are speaking out. So listen to them. Make the conscious effort to seek out native voices.

#ProtectICWA #LandBack

Here is a start, the article on the Doctrine of Discovery from the Lakota People's Law Project

https://lakotalaw.org/news/2023-04-19/doctrine-of-discovery-not-enough

"...in order for there to be infants and children available to adopt, there has to be family separation. There has to be a crisis and loss. There has to be systematic disenfranchisement and a family left feeling like there’s no other way. Or a family having their rights violated. Whether the child is adopted by a straight couple or a gay couple doesn’t matter."

https://tinyurl.com/mr2hkrh5

#adoption #Abolition #AbolishCPS #ProtectICWA #FamilySeparation #ProtectTransYouth #TransParentsAreSacred

#ProtectICWA #ICWA #IndigenousRights
The historical, traumatic, and attempts of systemic annihilation of tribes from the U.S. Government cannot be ignored. Help protect Native American families by standing up for ICWA against the Supreme Court and stop systemic oppression

#ProtectICWA #icwa #nativelaw
Native American families are 4X more likely to have their kids removed and placed in foster care than white families. While also having indigenous children placed into white families.

#Native children and U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland are under legal attack in Brackeen v. Haaland. The powerful people behind the lawsuit include both #BigOil and the State of #Texas. If their attempt to have a conservative-majority Supreme Court overturn the #IndianChildWelfareAct is successful, the door will be open to the total elimination of #TribalSovereignty.

Take action now to stop this horrific attack on Native rights!

https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa/?ms=tw_share&snw=2&ref=0e22ab7e-8a50-40eb-b034-7c54a76e0e76

#ICWA #ProtectICWA

The only thing I miss from the old site is #nativetwitter I haven’t seen any crossover yet. I’ll keep looking though. #indigenousrights #ProtectICWA

Stop Stealing Native Kids.... Sign this petition to #SaveICWA #ProtectICWA

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/tell-a-friend/71508000

Holding truths and traditions and reconciling the two in a path of honesty and gaining trust with our Indigenous family, can and in my opinion SHOULD BE, the goal.

#IndigenousTruthDay & #Thanksgiving   

#ProtectICWA #TeachTheTruth #BeThankful #LoveOneAnother #LoveIsAVerb

The current attempt at gutting ICWA is being done pro bono by lawyers for Big Oil. It should be all the proof you need that restoring indigenous sovereignty is inextricably linked to surviving the climate crisis. #ProtectICWA

The #upendmovement has released a new compilation of resources for supporting #ICWA. If you want to learn more about this issue, and why we need to do everything we can to #ProtectICWA, take a look here.

Also, if you know of other good resources, please share so we can add them.

MORE HERE: https://mailchi.mp/upendmovement/icwaresources?e=cb20d8967c

#ChildWelfare #FosterCare

#ProtectICWA The #ICWA case currently in front of the US Supreme Court is very serious. The Indian Child Welfare Act literally was designed and passed to prevent any further cultural genocide and the theft of Native American children from their families and communities, which was not only practice BUT government policy for over a century before ICWA was first passed in 1978. SCOTUS is literally considering overturning an anti-genocide bill. This is horrific.

RT @retrograde@twitter.com

Native children are being STOLEN and ABUSED by the government every day TO THIS DAY! It didn’t stop with the end of residential schools. ITS STILL HAPPENING! And that is why we need to #ProtectICWA #ICWA

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/retrograde/status/1590442699400044544

Want to do something to help #ProtectICWA and #Indigenous children? Spread the word. Write your own post, or copy mine.

Sign this petition: https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa

Text PCCPGW to 50409 to tell your representatives, or contact them another way.

Sign at https://change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act

Forced assimilation is genocide. #ICWA prioritizes keeping #Native children with their families, relatives, or tribal members.

Heard of #ICWA? It's the law being discussed by SCOTUS right now and has reduced the amount of #Indigenous children from being stolen since the 1970s. If they can legally steal more children, the tribes will eventually vanish, and so will #Native land claims. It's no wonder a law firm for Big Oil is representing *for free* the white parents who stole a Native child from her family.

#NoWhiteSaviors #LandBack #ProtectICWA