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Forty-five years ago, Congress passed the Indian Child Welfare Act to address a crisis — Native American children were being removed from their homes at alarming rates.
Studies found that more than a quarter of all American Indian children were taken from their families, placed in foster care or put up for adoption, typically in non-Native households.
ICWA was designed to counteract decades of policies and systems that uprooted Native American children from their families and culture — from boarding schools to the Indian Adoption Project, to the disproportionate removal of Native American children by child welfare agencies.
Cameron PajYeeb Yang, 28, is a Ph.D. student at the University of Minnesota and a development manager for Freedom Inc., a Wisconsin-based nonprofit organization that works with low-income communities of color, particularly Black and Southeast Asian communities, to help them navigate housing, health care, the legal justice system and other services.
Yang is a second-generation Hmong queer, transgender, nonbinary person who was born and raised in St. Paul, where they still live.
“There are a lot of great pockets of Hmong, queer, trans folks,” Yang said of the Twin Cities communities. “There are a lot of other informal spaces that cultivate great relationships within the Hmong queer trans community.”
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Blackout license plates will become available after wide appeal. State lawmakers authorized them in the new budget, and those who pick them will pay an additional $30 per year on top of standard registration fees and taxes. Listen for more on the Minnesota Today podcast.
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Thousands of Reddit communities 'go dark' in protest of new developer fees. Redditers hope to pressure company executives to reverse their decision to charge developers for access to the site, which until now has been free.
