Press Releases
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United States Supreme Court Denies Review in ICWA Case
(Portland, Ore., May 30, 2019)—The Protect ICWA Campaign—the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the National Congress of American Indians, the Association on American Indian Affairs, and the Native American Rights Fund—applauds the U.S. Supreme Court’s...
Coalition Seeks Answers about Children Who Went Missing at U.S. Indian Boarding School via United Nations Working Group on Enforced and Involuntary Disappearances
(GENEVA, SWITZERLAND, May 14, 2019)–Today a coalition of tribes, organizations, and independent researchers will go before the United Nations to testify about American Indian and Alaskan Native Children who went Missing under the United States’ Indian Boarding School...
NICWA Announces Charitable Donation to Support Families Encountering the Child Welfare System
(Portland, Ore., April 11, 2019)—The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) today thanks the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians, located near Highland, California, for their generous grant of $149,949 to help NICWA provide resources to families who...
Seminole Tribe of Florida Provides Host Sponsorship of NICWA Conference
MEDIA ADVISORY (Portland, Ore., March 28, 2018)—The National Indian Child Welfare Association (NICWA) received a $25,000 host sponsorship from the Seminole Tribe of Florida for this year’s 37th Annual Protecting Our Children National American Indian Conference on...
U.S. and Tribes Stand Together to Protect Native Children and Uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act
(NEW ORLEANS, March 13, 2019)—The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments today in Brackeen v. Bernhardt, in which the United States and tribal nations stand together in defense of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) and the American Indian and Alaska Native...
Federal Court of Appeals to Hear Oral Arguments Today in ICWA Challenge that Would Upend Over 200 Years of Legal Precedent
(NEW ORLEANS, March 13, 2019)—Today the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will review the lower federal court decision in Brackeen v. Bernhardt that ignored centuries of Supreme Court precedent to strike down the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), a law that protects the...
