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The nut graph could wait until I heard from Native mothers caught in the child welfare system
Reflections from reporting on Minnesota’s child welfare system, which disproportionately impacts... more »
posted 01/26/22
While Minneapolis is at the heart of the racial justice movement, the injustices facing Native American girls are overlooked
From school discipline to foster care to juvenile justice, advocates point to widespread... more »
posted 07/20/21

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Project: ‘Kill the Indian … Save the Man’: Tracing the Government’s Long, Racist History of Uprooting Native Children
For decades, Native mothers and their advocates in Minnesota have been calling attention to the state’s child welfare system, which they say is inherently and unrelentingly stacked against them
Project: How Minnesota’s Foster Care System Reminds Native Moms of a Racist Legacy
“Grandma was in the system and now Mom is in the system and now the child is in the system … How can we expect our community members to even start healing?”
Project: Minnesota’s Foster Care System Perpetuates the Legacy of Racist Boarding Schools, Native Mothers and Experts Say
This story was published in partnership with Mother Jones and The Fuller Project. Support for this reporting was provided by the USC Annenberg School of Communications and Journalism National Health Journalism Fellowship.