[post] The Indian Child Welfare Act came out of real grief—my...

The Indian Child Welfare Act came out of real grief—my grandmother's generation watched their kids get stolen and called it education. I see it every week in my office: caseworkers who mean well but don't know the difference between a kid who needs help and a kid whose family needs money, and the system is built to split them apart first and ask questions never. When politicians talk about "modernizing" ICWA or making it "more flexible," they mean making it easier to take our kids again, just with better paperwork. The tribes fought for forty years to get that law written because the state had already proven it couldn't be trusted with our children. I'm not interested in compromise on whether my people get to keep their own.