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Families: Hurt by ICWA? Connect with other families through CAICW on Facebook and discuss, encourage, share insights, case law, names of possible attorney's, and pray for each other. Join Facebook to start connecting with Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare.

"The Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare is committed to seek God's guidance in defending the rights of the poor and needy, as instructed in Proverbs 31:8-9."

CAICW, Christian Ministry as well as Family Advocacy, is interested in the total well-being of the individual and Family. CAICW is the only national organization advocating for families who have lost or are at risk of losing children due to misapplied and sometimes illegal application of Indian Law.

- CAICW has been advocating for families affected by the Indian law since 2004.
- Children have been removed from safe, loving homes and been placed into dangerous situations.
- Indian and non-Indian families have felt threatened by tribal government. Some have had to mortgage homes and endure lengthy legal processes to protect their children.
- Equal opportunities for adoption, safety and stability are not available to children of all heritages.
- The Constitutional right of parents to make life choices for their children, for children of Indian heritage to associate freely, and for children of Indian heritage to enjoy Equal Protection has in many cases been denied.


Please share these links with others:


Letters from Families: http://www.caicw.org/familystories.html


Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/fbCAICW.org


Home Website: http://www.caicw.org/


Cause page - http://www.causes.com/causes/537834


TWITTER: http://twitter.com/CAICW


EMAIL: writeus@caicw.org.

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Though proponents of the ICWA argue that the act has safeguards to prevent misuse, scores of multi-racial children have been hurt by misapplication of the Indian Child Welfare Act. These children and their families need encouragement, prayer, and legal help. The biggest way for all of us to help these families is to spread the letters posted on caicw.org (http://www.caicw.org/familystories.html) and let the rest of America know what is going on.

Please help us by sharing the cause!


CAICW is the only National organization advocating for families faced with loss of their children do to what amounts to a racial law. Our advocacy is both Judicial and Legislative as well as being a prayer resource for the families and a shoulder to cry on.

I’d like to encourage families to come to CAICW's facebook page, where they can connect with other families and discuss, encourage, share insights, share case law, share names of possible attorney's, and pray for each other.

If you know families hurt by ICWA, please share this.


We are also currently organizing a trip to DC for January, 2011 where we will meet with Gary Bauer of the American Values org, Dr. William Allen, the former Chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights, Senator Tom Coburn's staff, and many more, to let them know of the problem, advocate for the families, and discuss initiatives that will protect these children. Join US!


Thanks so much for your support!



To help spread the word - Please also share these important links:


Letters from Families: http://www.caicw.org/familystories.html


Facebook Page: http://facebook.com/fbCAICW.org


Home Website: http://www.caicw.org


Cause page: http://www.causes.com/causes/537834


TWITTER: http://twitter.com/CAICW


EMAIL: writeus@caicw.org
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FaceBook Cause - Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare

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Please join the CAICW Cause as we work to support, encourage and protect children. Educating others about how the Indian Child Wefare Act is hurting families is vital.

Simply passing the links on to others helps - because the more people that know - the more help we will eventually be able to get. And most people don't know. When they read the stories, they are shocked to learn this type of thing is happening to children in the US.

And that's the biggest need for us to begin with  - that other's learn what is happening.

http://www.causes.com/causes/537834
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Dying In Indian Country

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Roland J. Morris Sr. kept his tribal culture at heart as he taught his children about wild ricing, hunting, fishing, family history and some Ojibwa language. He did this, despite having lost all trust in the reservation system. He’d watched too many family members die tragic, violent deaths and had come to believe that current federal Indian policy and the reservation system itself was responsible.

Tribal leaders tell the public that the reservation system must be maintained or all will be lost. They claim that no one understands Indians, and this system has to be preserved as the only viable way for tribal members to exist in happiness. While they are saying this, violence, crime, child neglect, drug and alcohol abuse, and Fetal Alcohol effects are epidemic on the reservations. Further, at the hands of their own governments, tribal members experience denial of civil rights: freedom of speech, press, religion and assembly. They experience cohortion, manipulation, cronyism, nepotism, criminal fraud, ballot box stuffing and have even been robbed of their own children.

We are all aware this is happening, but refuse to admit out loud. For some reason, it's much easier to blame white America, history, and poverty for the problems.

Need a close-to-home example of how liberal, socialist policies within our government currently affect U.S. citizens?  Read Roland Morris's story. Read about his family - a beautiful 16-year-old niece hanging herself in a closet, another dying of a drug overdose in a public bathroom, a brother stabbed to death on the reservation, a four-yr-old left alone for a whole night at an inner city park, a two-yr old beaten to death by his mother, and more - and find out why this tribal elder traveled to DC over and over again to fight tribal sovereignty and the well-compensated Congressmen who support it.

Dying in Indian Country - A Family Story - http://dyinginindiancountry.blogspot.com/
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Facebook ICWA Discussion Page and Cause -

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We have now set up a Facebook Page for the Christian Alliance for Indian Child Welfare as well as a "Cause."

Harmful Indian Law affecting children and Families in both USA and Canada - Read the letters from birth parents, grandparents, foster families, pre-adoptive families concerning their multi-racial children who are being negatively affected by the sometimes illegal misapplication of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA).

Though proponents of the ICWA argue that the act has safeguards to prevent misuse, scores of multi-racial children are being negatively affected by application of ICWA. Across America, children that have never been near a reservation nor involved in tribal customs are routinely being removed from homes they love and placed with strangers chosen by tribes.

As most of our friends know - my husband Roland and I began CAICW org prior to his passing in 2004. For several years now, as we have moved from Alberta to Montana to North Dakota, and as I have been dealing with the raising of several teenagers on my own, I have been unable to give CAICW my full attention. However, we have continued to receive many letters from families in need of help and the board and I have attempted to support and encourage them as best we can with what little we had.

Now we are organizing a lobbying trip to DC in January, where we will meet with Gary Bauer of the American Values or, Dr. William Allen, the former Chair of the US Commission on Civil Rights, Senator Tom Coburn's staff, and many more.

Please read the stories of various families at http://www.caicw.org/familystories.html.   If you have time to help me update letters - as well as the website itself - please let me know.

1. Jn 3:16 - God so Loved the World, that he gave his only begotten son..that all might live. Jn 14:1-14 Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life...

2. CAICW: Christian Ministry as well as Family Advocacy, is interested in the total well-being of the individual and Family.

3. CAICW: only nat'l org advocating for families who have lost or are at risk of losing children due to misapplied and sometimes illegal Indian Law.


Letters from Families: http://www.caicw.org/familystories.html


Facebook Page: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Christian-Alliance-for-Indian-Child-Welfare/105558148606


Home Website: http://www.caicw.org


Facebook "Cause:" http://www.causes.com/causes/537834



CAICW - Christian Evangelism and Ministry - Gal. 2:10, “All they asked was that we should continue to remember the poor, the very thing I was eager to do."
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