I haven’t yet seen a tumblr post with these resources so I am making my own and hoping it shows up in the tags. I ASK EVERYONE WHO SEES THIS TO PLEASE REBLOG THIS.
THE INDIAN CHILD WELFARE ACT (ICWA) IS UNDER ATTACK. AND WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT IT USING THE RESOURCES BELOW.
I am not going to go into heavy detail on the bill, on its history, anything like that, the resources have a lot of information, but as a little bit of background:
It is a bill passed that forbids Native children from being adopted by non-Native families. This is for a good fucking reason, there have been historically large scoops of children taken from their Native families, at a much higher rate than white children (see the 60s scoop in Canada). These children are often abused in these homes, and their entire culture is taken from them (many end up not even knowing what tribe/nation they came from), hence the point of why they were taken in the first place (forced assimilation). Now, this does still happen through the foster care system, but this has protected in the case of adoption. It makes it that only Native families can adopt Native children.
White people hate this and have been smearing it for years (think of the whole Lexi Choctaw/Alexandria P. situation, which was so fucked how they used that little girl). Now, the state governments of Texas, Louisiana, and Indiana have taken it to the Supreme Court to be ruled unconstitutional. This case is called Haaland v. Brackeen. Because white people … really want to steal Native children. This is being heard by the court, oral arguments start WEDNESDAY. ICWA could be overturned in the matter of weeks or even days.
PLEASE USE ALL OF THESE TO PROTECT ICWA:
Petition that will involve you sending messages to your Congressional leaders through their text automated system, only available to those in the US (BUT NOTE YOU DO NOT NEED TO BE A CITIZEN, OR ELIGIBLE TO VOTE TO SIGN, JUST NEED TO BE IN THE US):
https://resist.bot/petitions/PCCPGW
Petition to send a message to President Biden and leaders at the Department of Justice, this does have a place to put in your country so seems like it may be available for those outside of the US but I am unsure (consider also donating to the Lakota People’s Law Project if you are able to):
https://action.lakotalaw.org/action/protect-icwa
Petition to be sent to the Attorney General and Secretary of the Department of the Interior, since it is through change.org it likely can be signed from outside of the US:
https://www.change.org/p/protect-the-indian-child-welfare-act
PLEASE SIGN AS MANY AS YOU ARE ABLE TO. PLEASE REBLOG IF YOU SEE THIS. PLEASE HELP US PROTECT ICWA.
An artist : Aw man! I saw my arts were reposted on Instagram. I’ve asked them to take my arts down but they ignored me.
Me : Say no more! Click this link, then click ‘fill out this form’. Fill the form and wait for about 1-2 days, the staffs will remove the image you were reporting from the reposter’s account :^)
real
every eldest daughter deserves to be evil
ok...in the span of like three months another black man’s cruel death has gone viral after Ahmaud Arbery’s shooting back in February. The pattern is that both Arbery and George Floyd were killed by racist white men. More and more black people are suffering the horrors of police brutality, and it needs to stop. Will this make me hate cops? No, I watch too many cop shows. Anyway, I just wanted to spread awareness of these harmless black men being ruthlessly killed. The more it happens, the more it seems like genocide to me. White people are KILLING black people once again. We need to stop this cycle. I don’t know any donation sites to help the fight against racist killings, but you guys can reblog this and post some charities to donate to since I’m broke and the only thing I can do is speak out.
AWWWW ZUKOOOOOOO MY BABYYYYYY
he’s a little confused but he’s got the spirit
angsty bonus:
after a long and heartfelt hug he and Iroh had The Talk™ gay edition
i am so fucking angry that roe v wade got overturned. the GOP is winning and i can't fucking stand it anymore. i am turning 18 this year and i will try my best to get those assholes out of legislature. vote blue or this country will fall.
BRUH this is DISGUSTING!!! If I were someone with billions of dollars in the middle of a pandemic, I’d spend it all on CHARITY and helping the homeless! When I lived in Germany (military child here) it was pretty much illegal to be homeless because everyone was PROVIDED SHELTER BY THE GERMAN GOVERNMENT. And then we have MILLIONS of people starving here in the US and it just makes me want Europe to come reclaim this hellhole like DAMN.
This is sick
There’s also a fan theory/crackship that is Larry and Franziska, based on their dynamic by the ‘Investigations’ games, and how by ‘Spirit of Justice’ Larry had actually convinced her to model for him for his picture book series, from which he became Spencer Shay-level rich.
As a crackship I think that’s HILARIOUS and I love it. It’s also super cute to see Franziska open up to more people and form genuine friendships/relationships, especially with someone like Larry.
i just read in another life EVEN THOUGH I DON'T WATCH HAIKYUU!!
uuughhh i'm fucking crying sm rn ;-;
i don't even watch haikyuu!! yet bokuaka is like my fav ship UUGHHHHH WHY DO I DO THIS TO MYSELF
anyway how's your night going? :')
| Miles | Lvl 20 | Nonbinary | any pronouns | Obsessed with Sonic and Shadow (and sonadow /romantic) since I got to see the movie |
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