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               NATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICAN INDIANS

         INDIAN HEALTH & SOCIAL WELFARE CONCERNS COMMITTEE

                      Policy Resolution No. 5
           INTERNATION-INTERTRIBAL CHILD WELFARE COMPACT
                     Adopted October 22, 1976

WHEREAS, our children are our most valuable resource and insure 
         the survival of all Indian tribes in the United States, 
         Canada and Mexico, 

WHEREAS, state assumption of jurisdiction pursuant to P.L. 83-280, 
         and inappropriate actions of non-Indian public and 
         private social agencies has resulted in a high percentage 
         of Indian children being placed in non-Indian adoption 
         and foster homes, thus depriving them of their natural 
         parents and their cultural heritage, 

WHEREAS, many children are removed to distant locations without 
         tribal or urban Indian organization protection, allowing 
         them to be financially and psychologically exploited, 
         causing mental anguish to the child; the natural parents 
         and the extended family, 

WHEREAS, many families are never re-united because children cannot 
         be located, forcing Indian children to grow up never 
         knowing who they are, 

NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED, that the National Congress of 
         American Indians establish an International, Intertribal 
         child welfare compact. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that each Indian tribal council or urban 
         Indian organization will notify another Indian tribal 
         council or urban Indian organization of the location and 
         circumstances of any Indian child under the age of 18 who 
         has an affiliation with such tribe or urban organization. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the notifying tribal council will 
         provide child protection services for that child until 
         the child's tribe can be notified, or thereafter, if so 
         requested by the child's tribe. 

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, that the National Congress of American 
         Indians appoint a task force committee to develop the 
         necessary mechanisms to implement this compact, that the 
         National Congress of American Indians appoint a delegate 
         to monitor the placement practices of non-Indian 
         placement agencies, both public and private, who have 
         consistently ignored tribal traditions, preferences and 
         unique trust status in regard to the placement of Indian 
         children. 


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