South Dakota is violating ICWA by abducting and kidnapping Native children and placing them with white families. The practices of the state fall under the category of genocide according to the UN’s General Assembly definition. A legal campaign is underway to have the children returned to their families. Despite the state’s claims that they have the authority to remove children, this is false because the tribe has jurisdiction over reservation children. These kidnappings bear an eerie resemblance to the boarding school era where Native American children were kidnapped and forcibly sent to boarding schools far from home.
Source: Albert Bender. South Dakota commits shocking genocide against Native Americans. June 3, 2013. People’s World. http://www.peoplesworld.org/article/south-dakota-commits-shocking-genocide-against-native-americans/
