The State of South Dakota seizes about 750 American Indian kids every year reaping over a billion federal dollars since the Indian Child Welfare Act was made law.
Pennington County’s behavior has been called “shocking.”
I have direct knowledge of abuses visited upon families by employees of the state from 1994 to 2000 and am all too close to this story.
South Dakota's experiment with a GOP-dominated congressional delegation and Statehouse has failed so many generations that suicide looks like the only way out of lives twisted by a special kind of torture.
Pennington County’s behavior has been called “shocking.”
C.J. Abernath[e]y is running for the South Dakota Governor’s post with a plan to reign in state government. Should he be elected he might be able to teach his competition a few things about tribal sovereignty. “If I was elected governor, the state wouldn’t even go on the reservation without being invited,” said C.J. Abernath[e]y. Abernath[e]y’s views surprisingly align with what many voters across Lakota Country favor. When asked about tribal sovereignty, his understanding is like it was quoted from the notes of leading indigenous lawyers.Read the rest from Lakota Times editor, Brandon Ecoffey.
I have direct knowledge of abuses visited upon families by employees of the state from 1994 to 2000 and am all too close to this story.
South Dakota's experiment with a GOP-dominated congressional delegation and Statehouse has failed so many generations that suicide looks like the only way out of lives twisted by a special kind of torture.
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