SD Tribes Discuss the Idea of Creating Tribal-Run Foster Care Systems

Following mounting anger over charges that the state has routinely and illegally placed Native American children with non-native foster parents, South Dakota tribes gathered Monday in Rapid City to discuss how they could form their own tribal-run foster care systems. . . .

Since a conference held by the tribes in Rapid City in May, attended by Kevin Washburn, the U.S. Interior Department’s assistant secretary for Indian Affairs, the Lakota have focused increasingly on steps to wrestle away federal funding from South Dakota and create native-run foster care systems.

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One thought on “SD Tribes Discuss the Idea of Creating Tribal-Run Foster Care Systems

  1. Lisa July 9, 2013 / 7:17 pm

    Dont bother wasting time or money to do so. Because there are already qualified Native foster parents in the system they the government simply chose to ignore that fact and place our children in white families because hey they are better right. Nothing changed in the last 100 years or so and it wont because racism is still a major factor. Because they see white as better,

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