By Rob Capriccioso
WASHINGTON - One area of the Obama administration’s proposed fiscal year 2011 budget sticks out like a sore thumb. While most Indian-focused programs are remaining steady or are set to make increases, the National Park Service has proposed to dramatically reduce the amount available for NAGPRA grants.

Posted on February 7th, 2010 by hunwut
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By GAIL WESSON, The Press-Enterprise
The Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians’ tribal council was recognized at an Indian child welfare conference Thursday for sponsoring legislation related to adoptions of Indian children.
Rosemary Morillo, council vice chairwoman, accepted a Native American blanket from representatives of organizations that helped with the bill, according to a news release by Mike [...]

Posted on October 22nd, 2009 by hunwut
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By CHARLES HAND/The Valley Chronicle
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed a bill promoted by the Soboba Band of Luiseño Indians intended to encourage adoption of American Indian children by American Indians. The bill will allow California courts to honor tribal adoption tradition even when it does not necessarily conform to civil law.

Posted on October 16th, 2009 by hunwut
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Adoption bill would let tribes have say in adoptions of Indian youths by nontribal parents
By PHILIP RILEY, Sacramento Bureau
An Inland lawmaker’s bill to let American Indian children adopted by nontribal parents stay connected with tribal culture is moving swiftly through the Legislature.
The measure would let state courts give tribes jurisdiction over children in adoption cases [...]

Posted on August 21st, 2009 by hunwut
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By Rob Capriccioso
WASHINGTON - Of the approximately 500,000 American youth in foster care, Native American kids are faring among the worst, according to youth advocacy and policy experts.
New analysis indicates that American Indian, Hispanic and African-American children all fare more poorly than white children in foster care - with Native youth being about three times [...]

Posted on June 18th, 2009 by hunwut
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By Rob Capriccioso
Oct 24, 2008
WASHINGTON - With the Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act signed into law Oct. 7 by President George W. Bush, tribes now have just under a year to prepare for provisions of the legislation that will affect them.
The law, which made it through Congress in mid-September, allows tribes or [...]

Posted on October 24th, 2008 by hunwut
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By Rob Capriccioso
WASHINGTON - The Fostering Connections to Success and Increasing Adoptions Act, passed by Congress Sept. 22, creates new, sovereignty-based avenues for tribal governments to access the nation’s largest child welfare program, the Title IV-E Foster Care and Adoption Assistance program.
If signed into law by President George W. Bush, the legislation will allow tribal [...]

Posted on October 3rd, 2008 by hunwut
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