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Indian Country rallies as U.S. Supreme Court hears ICWA challenge
Thursday, November 3, 2022
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WASHINGTON, D.C. —
Indian Country will be out in force as the the nation’s highest court weighs the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).
Several hundred people are expected at the U.S. Supreme Court for the heavily-anticipated hearing in Haaland v. Brackeen next Wednesday. Arguments are expected to run nearly two hours as tribal leaders and tribal citizens rally out front with songs, prayers and a drum group.
“We need your help, we need your support,” Chairman Charles Martin of the Morongo Band of Mission Indians, one of the tribes involved in the closely-watched case, said during the National Congress of American Indians annual conference on Thursday.
“These are your children that we are trying to preserve,” Martin said in Sacramento, California, as NCAI entered the next to last day of the 79th conference.

- Sarah Kastelic (Alutiiq), Executive Director at the National Indian Child Welfare Association
- Erin Doughtery Lynch, Senior Staff Attorney at the Native American Rights Fund
- Dan Lewerenz (Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska), Assistant professor at the University of North Dakota School of Law and attorney with the Native American Rights Fund
- Fawn Sharp (Quinault Indian Nation), President of the National Congress of American Indians and Vice President of the Quinault Indian Nation
- Larry Wright (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska), Executive Director at the National Congress of American Indians
- Shannon O’Loughlin (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Chief Executive and Attorney at the Association on American Indian Affairs
- Autumn Adams (Confederated Tribes and Bands of Yakama Nation), law student who has lived, personal ICWA experience
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