The comments are in response to the Dear Tribal Leader letter we posted about here.
Here from AAIA, NICWA, NARF, NCAI
Here from Indian law professors.
Here from Craig Dorsay.
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It is good that changes are coming with ICWA. I think it is important to consider the circumstances of the cases that are bringing the changes about. In the Baby Veronica case they father was in the military and I felt there should have been a sort of “Special Circumstances” clause for someone is his situation. I can’t imagine how he must have felt being thousands of miles away and having someone one deliver notice of a hearing of termination. Our Native American service men and women should not have to sacrifice their rights to ICWA but should have better sources of information available to them so that they do not have to wing it through the process at a moments notice….something more should be put in place for them. Being a Native American we are “Wards of the Goverment” but what rights does that allow, once entered into the military, if any? I know that can possibly be a question for another discussion but somehow I felt that he should have had a better source to turn to on his rights, his child, and preferably someone with knowledge about ICWA and tribal law….which is not always easy to determine who that would be.