Lakota People’s Law Project "150-year history of broken promises and injustice"

"To the Bureau of Indian Affairs:

National Geographic’s recent feature on Lakota people in South Dakota recounts a 150-year history of broken promises and injustice. The article also highlights the Lakota’s resilience and a resurgence in the struggle to preserve their culture.

One of the greatest threats to the survival of Lakota culture is the unlawful removal of Native American children from their families by South Dakota state authorities.

Spurred by federal monetary incentives, the state’s actions have reached epidemic proportions, with nearly 700 Native children being taken each year.

These policies constitute a full-scale attack on the Lakota kinship system and have resulted in the shattering of countless families.

Last fall, NPR aired a three-part investigative series that exposed this tragic practice. In response to the award-winning report, Congressmen Ed Markey and Dan Boren requested that the Assistant Secretary of the Interior report on what the Bureau of Indian Affairs has done, or plans to do, to remediate the crisis.

Currently, tribal representatives from each of South Dakota’s reservations have called for a summit to discuss long-term solutions to this problem. We, the undersigned, join them and the Lakota People’s Law Project in calling on the Bureau of Indian Affairs to host this summit as soon as possible.

Sincerely,"

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