The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), has released a final rule eliminating cost-sharing requirement for Tribal child ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo/NICWA) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at ...

Christian Blackbird isn't sure how many children fell through the cracks. He'd been at the Crow Creek Indian Child Welfare Act Office for more than a year with a staff of two under his management. But ...

The justices resolved an issue that has split the state's Court of Appeals and focused attention on a key section of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. When a juvenile court judge knows or has ...

Gujarat expands Doodh Sanjeevani Yojana to all tribal ICDS blocks ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Leo Thompson received plenty of love, food and shelter from the non-Native American family who raised them, but missed out on any exposure to their Indigenous culture, heritage, ...

The Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA, is one of the most vital tools that Native people have at their disposal to guard against cultural genocide. Enacted in 1978, ICWA was a response to a ...

VELLORE: Three years ago, 11-year-old M Hemalatha was unsure of the exact date she was born because, in Vellore’s Jawadhu Hills, age of tribal children was meas ...

Editor's note: This is the seventh piece in a six-installment series about Native American children in South Dakota's foster care system, produced in partnership between the Argus Leader and South ...