Children, Tribes, and States: Adoption and Custody Conflicts Over American Indian Children

by Barbara Atwood

Children, Tribes, and States offers a multi-layered critique of Indian child welfare law. The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (ICWA) provides the governing law and reflects the prevailing federal policy. Three decades after its enactment, the law remains controversial. On one hand, Atwood agrees that many state courts still resist ICWA's jurisdictional provisions because of distrust of tribes and tribal courts. These jurisdictional battles not only...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159460522X
• ISBN13: 9781594605222
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Carolina Academic Press
• Length: 323 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.