{"id":13,"date":"2018-11-27T04:54:10","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T04:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nativeadoptionsaz.wordpress.com\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2018-12-09T23:03:25","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T23:03:25","slug":"icwa-multimedia","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/icwa-multimedia\/","title":{"rendered":"ICWA: Adoptees&#8217; and Families&#8217; Perspectives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>For Native American adoptees, ICWA crucial&nbsp;to heritage<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/303543241\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/303543241\">ICWA: An Adoptee&#8217;s Perspective<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user92196485\">nativeadoptionsaz<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sandy White Hawk and Carolyn Matter grew up away from&nbsp;their&nbsp;tribes. Unable&nbsp;to connect with&nbsp;their Native American heritage,&nbsp;the&nbsp;two experienced difficulties reconnecting with&nbsp;their cultures. They say the Indian Child Welfare Act helps preserve the culture they were denied as children. Video and story by Harrison Mantas.<\/p>\n<h2>ICWA and Adoptive Families<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/303108389\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/303108389\">Native American Foster Care<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user92196485\">nativeadoptionsaz<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The Indian Child Welfare Act requires agencies&nbsp;to consider&nbsp;the &#8220;best interests&#8221; of&nbsp;the children in foster care. Although ICWA prioritizes the adoptive children&#8217;s families and tribes, reunification isn&#8217;t always possible. Reporter Lindsay Walker interviews Elisia Manuel and Mimi Condon,&nbsp;two adoptive mothers of Native American children.<\/p>\n<p>Manuel, founder of non-profit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.threepreciousmiracles.com\/\">Three Precious Miracles<\/a>, said she has no issue with non-Native families adopting Native children \u2014 as long as&nbsp;they keep&nbsp;them connected&nbsp;to&nbsp;their culture.&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/gallery\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Condon<\/a>, a non-Native foster mom with three adopted Native children, has taken that advice to heart.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/303598855\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A non-native foster mom discusses her experience adopting three Native American children and keeping them connected to their Native roots.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Native American adoptees, ICWA crucial&nbsp;to heritage\ufeff ICWA: An Adoptee&#8217;s Perspective from nativeadoptionsaz on Vimeo. Sandy White Hawk and Carolyn Matter grew up away from&nbsp;their&nbsp;tribes. Unable&nbsp;to connect with&nbsp;their Native American heritage,&nbsp;the&nbsp;two experienced difficulties reconnecting with&nbsp;their cultures. They say the Indian Child Welfare Act helps preserve the culture they were denied as children. Video and story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":191,"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onestepdeeper.com\/nativeadoptions\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}