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US supreme court upholds protections for Native American children
(www.theguardian.com)
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Not necessarily. I think it's more important that a child be placed with a loving family rather than that they be placed with someone that happens to share a lot of genes or a cultural heritage with their ancestors, and this court case says that those latter factors can override the former. It's complicated.
If I understand correctly, the opinion explicitly focuses on Indian tribes as nations -- i.e. legal entities -- not races.