Posted on 03/22/2016 11:51:23 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A 6-year-old girl was removed from the California home of the foster family she has lived with for four years because she has a tiny sliver of Native American heritage — despite resistance from her foster parents and their tens of thousands of supporters.
Rusty and Summer Page of Santa Clarita, California, have long fought to gain custody of Lexi, 6, who is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American. That figure means that Lexi's home placement is dictated by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978.
That law "seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families," according to its own language.
The child's birth parents struggled with substance abuse, according to court documents. Her father, who had a criminal history, never lived on a Choctaw reservation and didn't have any social, political, or cultural ties to the tribe, according to the court documents. But officials determined that Lexi is 1/64th Choctaw based on his ancestry.
Lexi was placed with the Pages — who have three other children — in December 2011 after two unsuccessful foster homes, including one where she was taken out of because of a black eye and a scrape on her face, the court documents said.
In 2011, "extended" family in Utah became aware that Lexi was with a foster family and expressed "interest in adopting" her, according to the documents. The documents said that Lexi is related to the Utah couple, who are not Native American, through her step-grandfather.
The California Court of Appeals originally ruled in August of 2014 that Lexi could stay with the Pages and they could continue to fight the Utah family for custody of the child.
But a decision earlier this month ordered the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services to place Lexi with the Utah family
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How does 1.56% trump the other 98.44%? And how the hell does a step-grandparent get to make custody decisions?
Pure evil.
Wait another ten Years and see what we have with mooslem laws
Shameful.
You must be making a reference to that fake Indian in the senate.
Another thought. The Federal Government is the only plae where human beings are described by their blood line. American Indians along with Horses, Dogs and Cattle.
One sixteenth mix in of Lenape and Cherokee here agrees with you. No sooner did the law become truly blind to race but the Left wrote extreme racism back into it. As if when oppression of one sort ends a new one must begin to restore “justice”. And what’s infuriating is that both ends of this obsession over race were and are Democratic Party constructs.
So, does this mean white families cannot adopt a black child???
A Chinese family cannot adopt a Hawaiian child??
A black family cannot adopt a Japanese child?
WTH is WRONG with these people????????????????
I get that foster homes are intended to be a temporary arrangement, but it's heartbreaking nonetheless.
This little girl was devastated she had been with this family for 5 years!!! Does it not matter ripping a child this age from the only family she has ever known!!!
Or she could grow up to be a Senator from Mass.
Reminds me of the old “one drop” laws used to discriminate against blacks.
Gee, I’m 1/16th perhaps more. Could I be snatched?
Bingo!
(Pun fully intended.)
It’s happening right now in Southwestern Michigan.
The Pokagon Band of the Potowatomi have suddenly come into riches from two large scale casino operations.
Simultaneously they started purging the tribal rolls because of a slew of folks who just as suddenly remembered that they had an Uncle Nibbling Raccoon who forgot to re-up a few years back.
Good Lord. I’m more than 1/64th Native American. I think most people who have ancestors who have been in America since the 1800s probably have 1/64th Native American blood. This is insanity.
Ain’t that the truth.
There are some good families on the Res...but they have the odds stacked against them.
This kid...with the anger and grief and guilt and confusion? Slim to none.
The child is being sent to members of her “extended family” in Utah, who do not live on a reservation nor are they “Native American.”
Yep, according to her, that is how you can distinguish people with a small fraction of native american ancestry.
No. She’s only 1/64. You must be at least 1/32 to qualify for the Senate. She might have a lock on the House, though.
She was forced into the possession of strangers for no other reason than a “heritage” based on nothing more than taint of blood.
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