And now:Ish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Wed, 9 Dec 1998 01:28:52 EST >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Fwd: American Indian Twins Adopted >X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 sub 214 > > >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Return-path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: American Indian Twins Adopted >Date: Tue, 8 Dec 1998 06:25:22 EST >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > >American Indian Twins Adopted > >.c The Associated Press > > By NANCY NUSSBAUM > >COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- A five-year legal battle over the adoption of twin >girls that sparked congressional debate over American Indian sovereignty is >officially over. > >Jim and Collet Rost signed adoption papers Monday for 5-year-olds Bridget and >Lucy. The girls, born before parents Richard and Cindy Adams were married, >were put up for adoption and had been raised since they were 2 weeks old by >the Rosts. > >But the birth parents later sought their return, citing a federal law that >gives Indian parents or any tribal members the first right to adopt Indian >children. Richard Adams is part Pomo, a northern Californian tribe, and Cindy >Adams is half Yaqui, a Southwestern tribe. > >The case prompted debate on Capitol Hill about whether changes were needed in >the federal law, the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. The law was written to >curb a rise in adoptions of Indian children by non-Indians, a trend that >threatened the survival of some tribes. > >``I don't believe it was meant to be used in the way it was used in our >case,'' Mrs. Rost said. ``It was put into play to keep white social workers >from putting Native American children in non-Native American families.'' > >In 1997, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a California Court of >Appeals ruling in favor of the Rosts. The appeals court had ordered that a >trial court should determine whether the birth parents had significant social, >cultural or political affiliation with their tribes before the twins were >born. > >The dispute was settled when the Adamses agreed last year to allow the >adoption and the Rosts agreed to bring the girls to California for visits >every other year until age 18. > >``They are welcome to come out here and visit them as well,'' Mrs. Rost said. > >AP-NY-12-08-98 0623EST > > Copyright 1998 The Associated Press. The information contained in the AP >news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise >distributed without prior written authority of The Associated Press. > > > >To edit your profile, go to keyword <A HREF="aol://1722:NewsProfiles"> >NewsProfiles</A>. >For all of today's news, go to keyword <A HREF="aol://1722:News">News</A>. > &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. section 107, this material is distributed without profit or payment ...http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&& Tsonkwadiyonrat (We are ONE Spirit) Unenh onhwa' Awayaton http://www.tdi.net/ishgooda/ `"` `"` `"` `"` `"` `"`