The over-arching concern for Native Americans is their sovereignty, but a lack of engagement both within their community and from politicians worries some.
The over-arching concern for Natives is sovereignty, but a lack of engagement both within their community and from politicians worries some.Sandra Blackbear Ramirez poses for a portrait at the Dallas Indian United Methodist Church on Aug. 13, 2024. Each animal on the mural behind her represents a family in the church.Many Native Americans in North Texas don’t feel their voices are being heard ahead of the 2024 presidential election.
Silva Brave, however, said critics believe the law diluted Indigenous culture and obstructed tribal and community ties. It also forced Natives off land the United States government sought to own and develop. “It’s just a reminder constantly when there’s opposition to letting ICWA work for Native people, that colonization never ended, really,” Voice Yellowfish said. “There’s not an end date to it. It’s continued; it just looks different now.”
Stenstrom is a member of the Winnebago Ho-Chunk tribe in Nebraska. He is one of seven children, all of whom were taken from the reservation and placed in the foster care system.He and his younger brother were driven out of the reservation and into foster care, rotating in and out of homes for months hosted by non-Native families.
Blackbear Ramirez was handed the book of children who were eligible for adoption. In the catalog of children organized by race, she noticed there was no section for Native American kids.“There was a section that said mixed, and so I happened to flip there,” she said.
Silva Brave also is watching a struggle farther south in Boca Chica, a small town just outside of Brownsville on the edge of the Texas-Mexico border.“Especially in the state of Texas, it’s a constant struggle to remind people that you are sovereign and that this is your land,” Silva Brave said. “The SpaceX stuff is built so close to tribal lands, and they’re always having to fight to keep their ancestral land safe from being taken over.
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