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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So they are using a law meant to make sure indian kids are raised by indians to take a kid who is mostly not indian and make sure they are raised by people who are even less indian?
Yes, but we seem to be letting Muslims do it more and more.
With lawyers and courts loaded with white privilege?
This is a hugh and series WIN for the minority grievance industry.
Like the girl in the story, I have 1/64th Indian blood in me, and like you Mohawk. I'd be laughed at if I tried to become a member of the tribe.
Bless your Heart
I thought they kicked you out if you were less than 1/16th. If those rules have changed, then I’m due some of that casino $$$$. My great... grandfather came over with John Smith to Jamestown and married an Indian woman. That’s about as far reaching as this poor child’s 1/64th.
Grrrrr....!
the gov wants the worst for your children
let’s pray she somehow finds her way to a doorstep in Santa Clarita, CA someday soon.
This wasn’t ‘KNOWN’ at the start? Only in govt.
>>I get that foster homes are intended to be a temporary arrangement, but it’s heartbreaking nonetheless.<<
We’re already talking 5 yrs. here. How ‘temporary’ is temporary??
Course, even ones OWN children are on a ‘temporary’ basis...~18yrs./when they leave the nest /s
Again, we find GOVT in the mix and having it all FUBAR; instead of making the process of adoption EASIER, govt places hurdle upon hurdle upon....Yet, have NO qualms re: welfare brood-mare and child-neglect/endangerment/abuse.
I don’t know about tribal benefits with that little blood but I doubt she will qualify for any tribal benefits.
I had 2 nephews whose father was 3/4 Stillaquamish (Puget Sound tribe) and he left my sister and his boys when they war 3&4 years old and ran back to the reservation. The boys were raised by my dad (their grandpa) who taught them be self sufficient and think for themselves. Out of the blue their mom gets a call one day that the boys father is dying and he wants to see them. They were 18 & 19 at this time. So they go see them and their dad decided he wanted to get them official tribal status. So they went through that process and were granted full status. They were excited because of the scholarships for higher education that was now available to them because they were smart but knew that they couldn’t afford college.
That all came to an abrupt end in about 3 months. They are the most worthless 2 people you have ever seen. Once they realized they get free money and can hunt and fish (poach) it was all over for them.
I'm not arguing the point here... I just wish the foster parents had attempted early on to adopt her.
MLK Jr gave his speech for nothing. Libs can’t live with no color lines and judging someone on character.
I absolutely agree. The legal fiction of their 'sovereignty' needs to be done away with. Either that, or we could halt all welfare payments and other cash transfers to these 'sovereign nations'.
There is not a person on this planet that was not conquered at one time or another by another nation. It's past time to get over it and join the rest of us.
1/64th is about as much Indian Elizabeth Warren is (or any of us for that matter). How come someone doesn’t come and take HER away?
Hmmm...
100% = I am 100% Choctaw
50%= My parent(1) was Choctaw
25%= My grandparent(1) was Choctaw
12.5%= My great grandparent(1) was Choctaw
6.25%= My great great grandparent(1) was Choctaw
3.125%= My great great great grandparent(1) was Choctaw
1.0625%= My great great great great grandparent(1) was Choctaw
For this little girl to be only 1.06% Choctaw, there has only been one Native American in her bloodline in the last seven generations.
The article states: “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.”
And:
“The documents said that Lexi is related to the Utah couple, who are not Native American, through her step-grandfather.”
Is a “step-grandfather” even a blood relation? Step grandfather, to me anyway, means something like the second husband of the grand mother AFTER she had the girl’s father.
The new racism.
One of her 3rd great-grandparents was an Indian. Wow, so does that make 20% of the country Indian, or what?
This is absurd. What this country did to the Indians was horrendous, beyond forgiveness...but ripping this poor little girl away from the only family that actually cares about her is just heartless. We’re taught in school that government is here to represent us, to serve us, to make life better for us - what a freaking bald-faced LIE!
this is what happens in a liberal stupid country....some people do in fact matter more than others....and the vast majority of we working tax paying stiffs get to enjoy few of the advantages and preferences but we sure do get to pay for them...
you think the Indians would want this girl if she had downs syndrome or spina bifida?....no way....
I suppose the girl is a cash cow for the supposed extended extended family relatives to collect on..
I’m 1/16 and the Indians were offended when I tried to obtain genealogical information about my grandmother’s grandmother. My heart goes out to that poor little girl and her family.
so what I say is if we can just get our white people to only let their babies be adopted by white people...problem solved...
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