Native Foster Care: Lost Children, Shattered Families
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Overview of a NPR News three-part investigation
Nearly 700 Native American children in South Dakota are being removed from their homes every year, sometimes under questionable circumstances. An http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=141662357" target="_blank">NPR News investigation has found that the state is largely failing to place them according to the law. The vast majority of native kids in foster care in South Dakota are in nonnative homes or group homes, according to an NPR analysis of state records.
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- http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141662357/incentives-and-cultural-bias-fuel-foster-system" target="_blank">Part 1: Incentives And Cultural Bias Fuel Foster SystemNative American grandparents like Janice Howe fight to bring children back to the reservation.
- http://www.npr.org/2011/10/26/141700018/tribes-question-foster-groups-power-and-influence" target="_blank">Part 2: Tribes Question Foster Group's Power And InfluenceIn South Dakota, Children's Home Society cares for hundreds of Native American children
- http://www.npr.org/2011/10/27/141728431/native-survivors-of-foster-care-return-home" target="_blank">Part 3: Native Survivors Of Foster Care Return HomeNative Americans like Dwayne Stenstrom, who were sent away as children, seek the heritage they lost.
- http://www.npr.org/2011/10/25/141650809/a-fight-for-her-grandchildren-mirrors-a-native-past" target="_blank">A Fight For Her Grandchildren Mirrors A Native PastSuzanne Crow's struggle to bring home her grandchildren harkens her boarding school days.
- http://www.npr.org/2011/10/26/141700018/tribes-question-foster-groups-power-and-influence" target="_blank">Tribes Question Foster Group's Power And InfluenceOctober 26, 2011 In South Dakota, hundreds of Native American foster children are being placed in a large private group home, which gets paid millions of dollars, instead of with family or other members of their tribes.