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My name is Darcy Olson. I am mother to 10 foster kids, four forever's that I adopted.

Darcy Olson is the former CEO of the Goldwater Institute, a right-wing think tank-based

in Arizona. And I was in a training class to become a foster parent. I was in just a typical

licensing class. And a slide came up. It was an old fashioned sort of overhead. And I'll never

forget it because it said all of these rights apply except for children under ICWA.

First I thought what is ICWA? And my second thought was, well we all have the same rights

under the Constitution. It can't be right that there's some subset of American children who don't

have equal rights. Like we've remedied this over the last 100 years in our country, right? We've

remedied this in so many ways. In the small cluster of right-wing organizations that have been

attacking ICWA, the Goldwater Institute is leading the charge. So I jotted down some notes. I went

back to my office at the time and I talked to my colleague and I asked him and I said I read about

this and he said let me look into this a little bit. That colleague was a man named Clint Bullock,

a big name and conservative circles. Before coming to Goldwater, he had run one of the country's

most successful conservative litigation centers. And when he looked into it, he became very

incensed. He said I worked on an issue years ago on and we won about not letting race enter

the equation in adoptions. And so once I brought that to him and he realized the depth of what was

going on, he wanted to take that on and took up the spear and really was an incredible warrior.

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