Three bills were introduced last year at the South Dakota Legislature to address Native American child welfare reform. All of them were defeated, with opponents citing concerns about the U.S. Supreme ...

The Supreme Court issued a landmark victory for tribal sovereignty by rejecting all the constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Brackeen v. Haaland, requiring state courts ...

A bill revising the Montana Indian Child Welfare Act — a priority bill this session for the Montana American Indian Caucus — was signed into law earlier this month, though in a much weaker form than ...

On Friday, the Native American Journalists Association issued a statement saying it was “ disheartened by some of the mainstream reporting on the recent adoption case involving a Choctaw Nation child ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Four national Native American organizations on Monday asked the U.S. Department of Justice to launch an investigation into the treatment of American Indian and Alaska Native ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to review a case involving a federal law that gives Native Americans preference in adoptions of Native children. The high court said Monday it would take ...

A federal judge has decided that Native American families deserve a chance to prove that South Dakota officials routinely ignore their rights and their children's rights during custody hearings. U.S.

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme ...