Editor's note: Kelly Buffalo-Quinn first told this story on stage at the Des Moines Storytellers Project: On Second Thought event in 2019. The Des Moines Storytellers Project, a series of storytelling ...
For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids. The state’s courts and Washington Department of ...
THE STORIES AND PEOPLE MAKING A DIFFERENCE IN OUR COMMUNITY. THIS IS KETV NEWSWATCH SEVEN’S CHRONICLE. AND GOOD MORNING. THANKS FOR JOINING US. I’M ROB MCCARTNEY. LAST MONTH, NOVEMBER, WAS NATIVE ...
The Supreme Court issued a landmark victory for tribal sovereignty by rejecting all the constitutional challenges to the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) in Brackeen v. Haaland, requiring state courts ...
For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids. The state’s courts and Washington Department of ...
Yet the gaps have continually worsened. Data from the nonprofit Sentencing Project and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 2019-23, the most recent available, shows ...