THE FUTURE OF THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT: HISTORICAL, LEGAL AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON BRACKEEN V. HAALAND
William S. Boyd School of Law Indian Nations Gaming & Governance Program
UNLV American Indian Alliance
The Center for Indian Law and Policy at Seattle University School of Law
Presents
THE FUTURE OF THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT:
HISTORICAL, LEGAL AND PRACTICAL PERSPECTIVES ON
BRACKEEN V. HAALAND
The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments this month in a far-reaching challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act, a federal law that strengthens Indian tribal control over foster care and adoption outcomes for their children, even when those children are in state foster care systems. It was passed in 1978 in response to more than a century of federal and state policies that separated generations of Indian children from their tribes and families, first through assimilationist boarding schools and later through targeted removal by state child welfare workers. Join us for a discussion of the history of Native child removal, how the law works, how it set the stage for innovations in tribal child welfare law and policy, what the arguments are, and what the case could mean for Indian children, tribes, and the field of federal Indian law.
Panelists:
Prof. Margaret D. Jacobs (Charles Mach Professor of History; Director, Center for Great Plains at University of Nebraska-Lincoln)
Prof. Gregory Ablavsky (Marion Rice Kirkwood Professor of Law at Stanford Law School)
Prof. Bethany Berger (Wallace Stevens Professor of Law at UConn)
Alyssa Connolly (Tribal Attorney, Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians)
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
Virtual, With In Person Discussion
William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV Discussion, BSL Room 105
Seattle University School of Law Discussion in Sullivan Hall, Room 309
Program is Free, but Registration is Required to Receive the Zoom Link
(Registration for the Zoom link ends at 10 AM on 11.7.22)
Please join us in person to watch the webinar and participate in the discussion!