Social work graduates among leaders innovating national best practices in tribal child welfare

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“The removal of Indian children from their natural homes and tribal setting has been and continues to be a national crisis.” These words were published in a 1976 federal task force report. Two years later, the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) was passed. This legislation has been a critical tool over the last four decades for preserving Native families and culture. 

At the time the law was implemented, roughly one-third of Native children were being stripped from their homes—typically to be placed with white families or in boarding schools far from their communities. 

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