Earlier this year, policy changes leading to migrant family separations rocked the country, leading to surprise and outrage. How could the United States, founded as a pillar of freedom, even consider a policy that rips children from their families?
However, Native history reminds us that family separation is not new to American soil, nor is our government a stranger to it.
In 1978, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was passed by Congress in order to formally end the policy of removing Native children from their families. Until that point, the U.S. government promoted family separations first through boarding schools and later through adoptions and the foster care system.
[For more on this story by Mariah Gladstone, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...gal-protection/32548]
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