University of Virginia's School of Law: Professor Sees Possible Threat to Native American Protections
November 13, 2020
November 13, 2020
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia, Nov. 13 -- The University of Virginia's School of Law issued the following news:
A federal adoption law mandating that Native American children should be kept with Indian families whenever possible is under challenge by a white couple in Texas. They argue in Brackeen v. Bernhardt, a decision currently with the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that they and other families can give Native children a good life -- if race is no longer a consideration. . . .
A federal adoption law mandating that Native American children should be kept with Indian families whenever possible is under challenge by a white couple in Texas. They argue in Brackeen v. Bernhardt, a decision currently with the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, that they and other families can give Native children a good life -- if race is no longer a consideration. . . .