S. HRG. 100-845 INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACt HEARING BEFORE THE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS UNITED STATES SENATE ONE HUNDREDTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION ON s. 1976 TO AMEND THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT MAY 11, 1988 WASHINGTON, DC / us, GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE IC!I_ WASHINGTON: 1988 ' I For ..Ie by the Superintendent of Documents. Consreseional Sales Office i us, Government Prmtmg Office. W8Shin~n. DC 20402 i ------------------- 24_.,; .P4%:::l'ifflI'.l!lJi' .>:.... CONTENTS Page So 1976,text of . 3 Statements: Blanchard, Evelyn, vice president, National Indian Social Workers Asso- ciation, Portland, OR .. 95 Brown, Eddie F., director, Arizona Department of Economic Security, Phoenix, AZ . 58 Flint, Robert B., counsel and board member, Catholic Social Services, Anchorage, AK .. 68 Gradstein, Marc, attorney at law, San Francisco, CA .. 81 Inouye, Hon. Daniel K., U.S. Senator from Hawaii, chairman, Select Committee on Indian Affairs .. Leavitt, David Keene, Esq., Academy of California Adoption Lawyers, SELECT COMMI'ITEE ON INDIAN AFFAIRS Beverly Hills, CA . 88 DANIEL K. INOUYE, Hawaii, Chairman Ligtenberg, Eugene, division director, the Casey Family Program, Rapid DANIEL J. EVANS, Washington, Vice Chairman City, SD . 64 FRANK H. MURKOWSKI, Alaska Lui, Violet A.P., attorney, the Navajo Nation, Department of Justice, JOHN MELCHER, Montana JOHN McCAIN, .Arizona Window Rock, AZ . 92 DENNIS DECONCINI, ArIZona Orrantia, Rose Margaret, executive director, Indian Child and Family QUENTIN N. BURDICK, North Dakota Services Consortium, Esconido, CA . 99 THOMAS A. DASCHLE, South Dakota . Swimmer, Ross, Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs, Department of the ALAN R. PARKER, Staff Director Interior, Washington, DC .. 46 PATRICIA M. ZELL, Chief Counsel JOE MENTOR, Jr., Minority Counsel ApPENDIX (II) Prepared statements: Anderson, Owanah, staff officer, Native American Ministries, Episcopal Church .. 201 Blanchard, Evelyn (with attachments) .. 161 Brown, Eddie F .. 115 Darcy, Cindy, Friends Committee on National Legislation .. 201 DeConcini, Hon. Dennis, U.S. Senator from Arizona .. 171 Evans, Hon, Daniel J., U.S. Senator from Washington, vice chairman, Select Committee on Indian Affairs . 126 Ewald, Elwyn, executive director, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Amer- ica, Office for Governmental Affairs . 201 Flint, Robert B .. 129 Gradstein, Marc (with letters) .. 133 Leavitt, David Keene .. 152 Ligtenberg, Eugene .. 122 Orrantia, Rose Margaret .. 169 Parks, Mary, Friends Committee on National Legislation . 201 Pierce, William L., Ph.D., National Committee for Adoption .. 174 Slagle, Allegan, assistant executive director, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Office for Governmental Affairs .. 201 Swimmer, Ross (with letters) .. 109 Additional material submitted for the record: Lui, Violet A.P., article, "The Battle over Baby K" .. 213 Reports: Berlin, Irving N., Anglo Adoptions of Native American: Repercussions in Adolescence .. 218 Three Feathers Associates, Norman, OK, Indian Child Welfare: A Status Report .. 220 Westermeyer, Joseph, Ethnic Identity Problems Among Ten Indian Psy- chiatric Patients . 232 11111.