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Navajo Nation Wins Appeal in Indian Child Welfare Act Case

by Penny Tucker
April 27, 2019
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The Arizona Court of Appeals ordered a new listening to Thursday over the guardianship of a 6-year-old toddler who’s difficulty to the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The Navajo Nation appealed the case, The Navajo Nation v. Department of Child Safety et al., in October 2018 after the juvenile court failed to pay attention to the testimony of a qualified professional witness as required via the ICWA within the child’s guardianship case.

The toddler, R.Y., falls underneath the act because his mother is a member of the Navajo Nation.

Tamara Shanker, the lawyer who represented the Navajo Nation, stated the act is an attempt to rebuild indigenous culture after centuries of the elimination of indigenous youngsters from their families.

When an indigenous determine cannot care for his or her baby, the ICWA prioritizes the position of the child in the custody of a relative or a person from the identical tribal kingdom.

Shanker said that since the juvenile court presented permanent guardianship without the testimony of a professional witness, it opened the door for destiny courts to brush aside other factors of the act.

“A Diné individual is as different from a Pascua Yaqui, as an Italian is from a Dane,” Shanker said. “Just due to the fact they will all just be European does not mean that they’re the same man or woman and feature the same infant rearing practices.”

 

She stated cultural professionals are important to appropriately determine a grownup’s ability to take care of a baby with the aid of his or her cultural requirements.

The act allows for 3 types of qualified experts to testify in its instances. One type of expert is a fellow tribal member who is a consultant inside the culture’s childrearing practices. The individual could also be a person who provides toddler and owns family offerings to tribal contributors and is a professional at the tribe’s familial company. The court can even listen to tales from a specialist with significant revel in and expertise on a sure subject matter touching on the case.

The expert or professionals testify as to whether or not the mother and father or an indigenous relative ought to boost the child without causing intense emotional or physical harm.

“We had to have this decision, because to now not get this will have set a completely risky precedent. If you start chipping away at vital necessities underneath the ICWA or any law, it’s like, ‘If we can chip away that requirement, we can chip away this one subsequent time,'” said Shanker.

She stated that since the juvenile courtroom did now not comply with all the act’s necessities, R.Y.’s custody becomes legally risky. Someone should appeal the ruling and probably take away him from his dad or mum’s care. She said this become no longer the Navajo Nation’s intention in pursuing the appeal.

Shaker stated she hopes the new listening to solidifies the boy’s custody and reinforces that even permanent guardianship instances have to follow all elements of the Indian Child Welfare Act.

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