. >> during booktv's recent visit to lincoln, nebraska we visited margaret jacobs to discuss the creation of the indian child welfare act and her book on the subject "a generation removed"." >> in 2013 the supreme court decided a case called adopted couple versus baby go but which is known more popularly as the baby veronica case or in the case involves a mother who would give up her child for adoption to a white south carolina couple without really informing the father of the child and the father of the child learned of the surrender of his daughter for adoption about five days before he was to be deployed to iraq. and when he learned of it he took steps to try to regain custody of his daughter. it turns out that eventually the south carolina court gave custody of veronica to her father, this deeply upset the south carolina couple and the reason the south carolina court gave custody to dust america with the adoptive couple was that is a number of the cherokee nation in the cherokee nation is covered by the indian child welfare act and they said everything that pretty -- custody at a vero

. >> drying book tv recent visit to lincoln, nebraska we visited margaret jacobs to discuss the creation of the indian child welfare act in her book on the subject of a generation removed. >> and 2,013 the supreme court decided a case called adoptive couple versus baby girl that is no more popularly as the baby veronica case which involved a mother who had given up her child for adoption to white south carolina couple without really informing the father of the child. the father of the child learned of the surrender of his daughter for adoption about five days before he was to be deployed. when he learned of it he took steps to try to regain custody of his daughter. it turns out that eventually the south carolina court gave custody of veronica to her father command this deeply upset the south carolina couple and the reason the south carolina court gave custody was that he is a member of the cherokee nation command and the cherokee nation is covered by the indian child welfare act. they sued to regain custody. and that led to the supreme court actually sort of deliberating about the consti

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