Supreme Court Upholds Indian Child Welfare Act, Protecting Tribal Sovereignty.

The Supreme Court upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), which protects Indigenous families from being forcibly removed from their communities and deprived of ties to their native culture. The decision came in response to an evangelical Christian family fighting for the right to adopt Indigenous children. Christianity has a dark history in America of destroying Native families, and many would-be adopters have inflicted great harm while using religion as their shield. Adoption should not be a family planning service, and parents need to do their due diligence and become trauma-informed. The multibillion-dollar adoption industry needs to support family preservation and ethical and trauma-informed adoption practices.