Oversight of the Indian Child Welfare Act: Hearing Before the Select Committee on Indian Affairs, United States Senate, Ninety-sixth Congress, Second Session, on Oversight of the Indian Child Welfare Act (Public Law 95-608), June 30, 1980, Washington, D.C.U.S. Government Printing Office, 1980 - 148 pages |
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administrative adopted Alaska Native appeal appropriate approved Area Director Area Office authority Belknap Indian Community Bobby George budget Bureau of Indian Central Maine Indian Central Office Chairman child and family child custody matters child custody proceedings Child Welfare Act child welfare program Committee Congress Crow Tribe Department family service programs Federal Register fiscal formula foster care grant application grant funds implementation Indian Affairs Indian child custody Indian Child Welfare Indian child's tribe Indian children Indian custodian Indian families Indian organizations Indian tribe Interior JOHN MELCHER July 31 Maine Indian Association Native Americans Navajo Nation NAVAJO TRIBAL COUNCIL Navajo Tribe notice off-reservation ongoing child welfare parent or Indian petition proposal Public Law reassumption of jurisdiction received recommendation regulations request requirements reservation Secretary Senator MELCHER Social Services staff submitted Title XX TRIBAL COUNCIL tribal court tribes and Indian Window Rock Yakima Nation
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Page 63 - Indian tribe" means any Indian tribe, band, nation, or other organized group or community, including any Alaska Native village or regional or village corporation as defined in or established pursuant to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (85 Stat. 688) which is recognized as eligible for the special programs and services provided by the United States to Indians because of their status as Indians...
Page 3 - Kation to protect the best interests of Indian children and to promote the stability and security of Indian tribes and families by the establishment of minimum Federal standards for the removal of Indian children from their families...
Page 5 - Full Faith and Credit Requirements Section 101(d) of the ICWA requires that [t]he United States, every State, every territory or possession of the United States, and every Indian tribe shall give full faith and credit...
Page 63 - Tribal organization" means the recognized governing body of any Indian tribe; any legally established organization of Indians which is controlled, sanctioned, or chartered by such governing body or which is democratically elected by the adult members of the Indian community to be served by such organization and which includes the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of its activities...
Page 5 - In any State court proceeding for the foster care placement of, or termination of parental rights to, an Indian child not domiciled or residing within the reservation of the Indian child's tribe, the court, in the absence of good cause to the contrary, shall transfer such proceeding to the jurisdiction of the tribe, absent objection by either parent, upon the petition of either parent or the Indian custodian or the...
Page 12 - Act, a map and a legal description of each wilderness area shall be filed with the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the United States Senate and the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the House of Representatives...
Page 29 - tribal court" means a court with jurisdiction over child custody proceedings and which is either a Court of Indian Offenses, a court established and operated under the code or custom of an Indian tribe, or any other administrative body of a tribe which is vested with authority over child custody proceedings.
Page 63 - Indian population to be served by such organization) and which includes the maximum participation of Indians in all phases of its activities. (f) "Urban Indian...
Page 67 - ... development, construction, operation, provision, or maintenance of adequate health facilities or services including the training of personnel for such work, from funds appropriated to the Indian Health Service for Indian health services or Indian health facilities; or (2) planning, training, evaluation or other activities designed to improve the capacity of a tribal organization to enter into a contract or contracts pursuant to section 103 of this Act.
Page 3 - ... which shall mean any action removing an Indian child from its parent or Indian custodian for temporary placement in a foster home or institution or the home of a guardian or conservator where the parent or Indian custodian cannot have the child returned upon demand, but where parental rights have not been terminated; (ii) "termination of parental rights...