After being held up for weeks, a Utah bill that would prioritize the placement of American Indian children in adoptions and with foster families within their cultures — regardless of what happens with federal law — passed through committee.
who likely died from the rough conditions at the school in the early 1900s.
Indigenous parents help kids say in touch with their identities, said Denae Shanidiin, who is Diné, or Navajo, as well as Korean.Thorne is the first member of the last four generations of her family to be raised by her parents. Her mother, grandfather and great-grandfather, she told the committee, were all torn from their families as kids. And they all died young from self-harm, which she believes is a result of the trauma.
Nina Sampson, who is also Diné, said she is willing to be a foster parent to help kids stayed connected to their culture and traditions. Her mother was displaced as a child, too, and she called that “a lonely place to be.” If passed, that would mean the current rules for Native adoptions would apply here, regardless of if the Supreme Court overturns the federal law.
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