Advocates had feared the Supreme Court would dismantle the Indian Child Welfare Act and Native sovereignty at large.The U.S. Supreme Court is pictured on November 8, 2022, in Washington, D.C., on a day that the Court heard a case challenging the legality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.Samuel Corum / Getty Images In a somewhat surprising ruling on Thursday, the Supreme Court ruled to uphold the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), delivering a win to Native American communities by upholding a decades-old law aimed at keeping Native American children from being taken away from their families and tribes.
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