Tepetochtli☀︎︎ (HE/HIM) At mariachigoth From TikTok
20, he/him, Nahua & (Reconnecting)-Úza Two-Spirit Trans Man
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Video Caption & Creator’s pinned comments:
This is all very calculated and carefully planned on their end. We need to be miles ahead of them. #ICWA #reproductiverights #roevwade #IndianChildWelfareAct #Indigenous #indigenoustiktok #native #nativetiktok #reproductivejustice
Info From Threads:
[What can we do to support?]
1) Donate directly to indigenous families’ crowdfunding efforts. 2) show up and show out, protest with and for us.
Links that were brought up by the creator & some commentors as of 2022 June 25 21:57 Central Time. [trans-advice is using wayback archive versions]
https://web.archive.org/web/20220619012310/https://ncuih.org/2022/03/11/icwas-constitutionality-challenged-and-review-by-the-supreme-court-underway/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220313074816/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/02/28/native-adoptions-supreme-court-indian-child/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220301222327/https://theintercept.com/2019/06/17/indian-child-welfare-act-goldwater-institute-legal-battle/
https://web.archive.org/web/20220508134729/https://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/brackeen-v-haaland/
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Video Transcript:
Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v Wade, they have their sights on the Indian Child Welfare Act as soon as next month. The Indian Child Welfare Act (“ICWA”, for short), is an act that prevents native children from being ripped away from Indigenous communities, and homes, and families, and place them to white families.
The ICWA keeps the jurisdiction of Welfare of children within respective tribes. It is not a coincidence they’ve overturned Roe v Wade, and now have their sights on the ICWA.
You can pause to read, but it says one of the reasons for overturning Roe was because “the domestic supply of infants” was too low for families wanting to adopt.
(Screenshot: Footnote 46: See, e.g. CDC, Adoption Experiences of Women and Men and Demand for Children To Adopt by Women 18-44 Years of Age in the United States 16 (Aug 2008).
[emphasized with yellow highlight by mariachigoth]: (“[N]early 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002 (i.e. they were in demand for a child), whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of live and available to be adopted had become virtually nonexistent”); [End emphasis]
CDC, National Center for Health Statistics, Adoption and Nonbiological Parenting, https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key_statistics/a-keystat.htm#adoption (showing that approximately 3.1 million women between the ages of 18-49 had ever “[t]aken steps to adopt a child” based on data collected from 2015-2019).
White adoptive families very often treat their adoptive native children as commodities, as accessories, as something that will benefit them. They cut cultural ties, and they assimilate them. Not only will this be encroaching on tribal sovereignty, but it also means that indigenous children will be ripped away from their families, from their communities, from their cultures, in order to be placed in white homes. It is an ongoing act of genocide.
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