Indigenous families

A legal team that previously challenged the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act is bringing the issue before the U.S. Supreme Court once again.

Hundreds of marches, rallies, talking circles, self-defense classes and candlelight vigils are planned for the week of May 5, which is observed as a national day of awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples movement.

Indigenous people nationwide have raised their fists, their poster boards and their voices for a message: They will not stand silently by while their relatives are killed or disappear.

Part two in our series explores how the emerging Birth Justice movement is addressing deep-rooted inequalities affecting Native women.

Part one of a two-part series examining widespread sterilization of Indigenous people and their century-long fight for reproductive freedom.

The state's Supreme Court ruled that two white foster parents don't have standing to argue that ICWA violated their constitutional rights.

Controversy surrounding a publicly financed report in Michigan on the brutal impact of Indian boarding schools continues to grow. 

An Arizona nonprofit helps Indigenous foster families as well as non-Native foster parents seeking to connect kids to their cultures.

In 2025, Indigenous Child and Families Reporter Nancy Marie Spears examined Indigenous experiences with child welfare systems.