Why would you publish this, @Eli_Fieldstadt? Who are you to determine how indigenous a person is or isn't?
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White people always want to determine indigeneity by their concept of race. But this case isn't about race, it's about tribal sovereignty.
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@Eli_Fieldstadt understood tribal sovereignty, she wouldn't write a ridiculous and violent sentence like "Lexi is 1.56 percent Choctaw." -
This is an Indian Child Welfare Act case; ICWA was created because whites keep stealing native babies. Thank goodness this was was returned.
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ICWA is in place because native nations (they're nations, ok?!) have the right to determine their future — including keeping their babies.
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Imagine someone from Italy said, "I'm gonna take this U.S. baby." Then imagine they did it for 500 years. The U.S. would be right to say no.
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This is what the Choctaw Nation is saying: No. No, white people can't just take Choctaw babies because they feel like it.
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Lexi isn't a *part* Choctaw. She *is* Choctaw. That's how it works — the nation determines who its citizens are. Because tribal sovereignty.
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