Tani on Jacobs on the Indian Child Welfare Act

Fellow Legal History Blogger Karen Tani has posted on Jotwell her appreciation of Margaret D. Jacobs’s article, Remembering the "Forgotten Child": The American Indian Child Welfare Crisis of the 1960s and 1970s, 37 American Indian Quarterly 136 (Winter/Spring 2013).  Karen writes that the majority opinion in the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision Adoptive Couple v. Baby Girl, No. 12-399 (U.S. June 25, 2013), which permitted the termination of a father’s rights and noted that the child in question “was only the slightest bit Cherokee (3/256, to be precise), should be read alongside [Jacobs’s article,] which encourages us to remember all the children that came before—and all the nation-making and un-making done on their backs.”