Regional Director’s report: ONGOING SEVERE CHILD S_xual ABUSE at Spirit Lake Rez DESPITE BIA and U.S. Attorney presence and claims to have cleaned it up. (WARNING: Graphic Wording IS edited below, but NOT edited in the report quoted in attached link.) While we are aware that similar things are happening on several other… (more)
When an elected official shows not only class and dignity, but a sincere desire to uphold Constitutional rights, some of us tend to feel a little shocked. Below is the apology delivered by Representative Kevin Cramer following a disagreement at a meeting of the North Dakota Council on Abused Women in late March. First -… (more)
. On February 12, 2013, a horrid violence against women was committed when the ‘Violence against Women Act’ was passed by the U.S. Senate by a 78-22 vote with all amendments intact. Women across the nation were thrown under a bus. On February 28, 2013, the U.S. House repeated the violence with 87 Republicans joining… (more)
Children on our Spirit Lake reservation are being raped and murdered, and nothing is being done to protect them. , A HORRIFIC report just leaked to us: Thomas Sullivan, Regional Administrator of the Denver Administration of Children and Families Office, submitted this to the DC office of ACF Friday morning, February 22, 2013 – AND… (more)
Alright, someone told me this morning that the link to this amazing message I posted two days ago has been ‘made private’ and they weren’t able to view it anymore. That’s strange. The link worked fine two days ago and the number of views was piling up fast – every time I looked at it,… (more)
by Elizabeth Sharon Morris Late Tuesday night, January 1st, 2013, the U.S. Senate unanimously passed S. Res. 628, expressing disappointment over the Russian law banning adoption of children by American citizens. Senator Inhofe, one of the two Senate Co-chairs of the Congressional Coalition on Adoption, and a wonderful supporter of children and families, rightly stated,… (more)
Hello. I am Elizabeth Sharon Morris, author of the book, Dying in Indian Country, WestBow, 2012 – http://dyinginindiancountry.com/ I was raised in the Twin Cities, lived on two reservations, a Bible College campus, and in three small towns. I married a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and have six children as well as a… (more)
Where to begin? We met with staff members from seven DC Senate offices on Monday. We had come to talk about the Indian Child Welfare Act and how it infringes on the right of children and parents. But sitting next to this young woman, who comes from the same reservation as my husband… I realized… (more)
A woman was advocating for rights of tribal members and freedom from tribal government tyranny, while at the same time telling me that my husband and I were wrong to share our Christianity because the only way tribal members can be free from alcohol is through traditional religion. So… while on the one hand she… (more)
by Elizabeth Sharon Morris “They just took my baby after 3 years…her sobbing is forever etched in my soul. She wanted us to save her and we couldn’t. Devastated.” An adoptive mother contacted CAICW on Facebook with this message at 1 am on Saturday, November 20, 2010, just hours after losing her little girl. CAICW… (more)
There’s another side to the ICWA that until very recently has received little disclosure or news coverage. Just why would a family (2-parent, single-parent, multi-generational, or blended) decide that reservation life is not what they CHOOSE for their family? The reasons are many, but some of the reasons are shocking. What cannot be denied is… (more)
Hello again, from Elizabeth Sharon Morris. Raised in a middle-class, mid-west suburb, I met my husband, a member of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe, in 1989. During our marriage, we lived on two reservations, a Bible College campus, within a major metropolitan area, and in two small towns. I have been the birth mother to five,… (more)
