Improving Foster Care For Native American Kids
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Derrin Yellow Robe, 3, stands in his great-grandparents' backyard on the Crow Creek Reservation in South Dakota. Along with his twin sister and two older sisters, he was taken off the reservation by South Dakota's Department of Social Services in July 2009 and spent a year and a half in foster care before being returned to his family.
Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families
()Nearly 700 Native American children in South Dakota are being removed from their homes every year, sometimes in questionable circumstances.
Incentives And Cultural Bias Fuel Foster System()
October 25, 2011 In South Dakota, Native American grandparents like Janice Howe are fighting to bring home their grandchildren who are caught up in a foster care system that is placing them with white families off the reservation.
Tribes Question Foster Group's Power And Influence()
October 26, 2011 In South Dakota, hundreds of Native American foster children are being placed in a large private group home, which gets paid millions of dollars, instead of with family or other members of their tribes.
Native Survivors Of Foster Care Return Home()
October 27, 2011 Native Americans like Dwayne Stenstrom, who were sent off the reservation as young children, seek the culture and heritage they lost.
A Fight For Her Grandchildren Mirrors A Native Past()
October 25, 2011 Suzanne Crow's three year struggle to bring her grandchildren home after they were placed in South Dakota's foster care system reminds her of the days she, and other American Indians were sent to boarding schools.
South Dakota Tribes Accuse State Of Violating Indian Welfare Act()
February 6, 2013 Eight tribes have delivered a report to Congress saying South Dakota is willfully ignoring a federal law meant to protect Native American children. Several lawmakers are demanding action. The Bureau of Indian Affairs on Wednesday agreed to convene a summit meeting of key players, and says it will urge state officials to respond.
