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Madonna Pappan, top, hugs her 4-year-old daughter Charlie Pappan before speaking at a press conference at the Adobe Eco Hotel in Rapid City, S.D. on Thursday, March 21, 2013. Pappan is one of three mothers represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in a class action suit filled by the ACLU on behalf of the Rosebud Sioux and Oglala Sioux tribes. The tribes are challenging the state's practices and policies that they say violate the Indian Child Welfare Act. (AP Photo/Rapid City Journal, Kristina Barker)

Law governing adoptions of Native American children upheld

By /August 9, 2019 /Local News

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A federal appeals court has upheld the constitutionality of a 1978 law giving preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving American Indian children. Friday’s decision by a panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal upholds the Indian Child Welfare […]

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