the very act that dustin brown was trying to use to get back his daughter.since then the department of justice has really shown itself to be interested in strengthening the indian child welfare act rather than doing away with it. so so that supreme court case was a setback, but i don't see it as the sort of deathknell of the indian child welfare act. in some ways it mobilized indian communities to really want to defend the indian child welfare act. it mobilized people like me. i thought, wow it's important for people to know it's kind of a notion. isn't it nice when people who have financial means taking children who are in difficult circumstances. but. but i felt like there was an important history to be told here that is more than meets the eye. sometimes state was using the promotion as a tool to undermine indian people and providing the resources that indian communities needed to thrive in for indian families who are struggling to get back on there feet. over time they just undermine the communities through moving the children. if you move the children i

and this eventually led to the passage of the indian child welfare act in 1978 the very act that dustin brown was trying to use to give back his daughter brought. and since then and since then the department of justice has really shown itself to be interested in strengthening the indian child welfare act rather than decimating it are doing away with it. so so that supreme court case was a setback, but i don't see it as the sort of deathknell of the indian child welfare act. in some ways it mobilized indian communities to really want to defend the indian child welfare act and it mobilized people like me as well. i was studying the history of this is going on and thought it so important to know about this. because hers kind of a notion that adoption is great. isn't it nice when people who have financial means taking children who are in difficult circumstances or who are neglected or abused. i felt like there was an important history to be told that there is more than meets the eye of the sometimes the state was using the promotion of fostering and adoption as a tool to undermine indian people.