On the latest What Next: Brackeen v. Haaland concerns adoption laws, but its implications reach all the way up to tribal sovereignty itself.
concerns how adoption placement currently works under the Indian Child Welfare Act. The law prioritizes placing Native children with Native families. But depending on how the court rules, striking down or changing ICWA could affect not only adoption but Indian tribes’ entire status as sovereign nations., Stanford law professor and scholar of American Indian tribal law, federal Indian law, and constitutional law.
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