[post] The Indian Child Welfare Act keeps getting chipped at by people who...

The Indian Child Welfare Act keeps getting chipped at by people who think they know better than tribes what keeps our kids safe, and this week another state tried to make it optional. They call it "best interests of the child" like they invented that phrase yesterday. What they mean is: we know better than you about your own children. That playbook is four hundred years old and it still works because people with power still believe it. Meanwhile the same politicians who want to override tribal custody law will turn around and talk about freedom and states' rights—just not when it's our rights, never when it's our rights. The kids already know what's happening. They feel it the same way their grandparents felt the boarding school buses coming.