The Lawsuit About the Indian Child Welfare Act That Isn’t About the Children

Past Due with Ana Marie Cox and Open Mike Eagle

Ana Marie Cox, Open Mike Eagle, and Andrew Steven

Society & Culture, Business, Performing Arts, Arts

4.6 • 6.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2021

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Fellow Crookedian Rebecca Nagle joins us to talk about Season Two of “This Land.” From the “boarding schools” of the 19th century to the good intentions of the Indian Child Welfare Act — and the big money campaign to repeal it. For a transcript of this episode, please visit crooked.com/withfriendslikethese. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Annamarie Cox and welcome to, with friends like these.
0:09.3	In the 1870s, state and religious groups in the US and Canada built what they called
0:14.7	boarding schools.
0:16.6	Native children were taken from their homes and families and sent far away so they could
0:21.5	quote, learn how to be white.
0:24.0	It was a gradual form of genocide and it continued for generations.
0:29.6	About a hundred years later, activists and native people finally convinced the federal
0:33.9	government to do something about it.
0:36.6	Thus was born the Indian Child Welfare Act for Iqwa.
0:41.0	It was passed in 1978.
0:43.8	The system created by that act, the people it affects, and the people who want to roll back
0:48.7	the clock.
0:49.7	That's what fellow crooked media host Rebecca Nagel explores in season two of this land.
0:56.2	She is our guest this week and she is coming right up.
1:03.0	Rebecca, welcome to the show.
1:04.9	Thank you so much for having me.
1:06.9	I very much appreciate the content warning you do at the beginning of your show.
1:11.0	Would you mind doing it here because we're going to be discussing the same stuff?
1:14.2	Yeah, so at the top of the podcast, what we say is the stories we're sharing this season
1:18.8	touch on different forms of trauma.
1:20.8	Please take care of yourself while you listen.
1:24.1	For big fans of taking care of yourself here.
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