Adoptee Voices Rising

Adoptee Voices Rising is an adoptee-led, social justice group that advocates for the adoptee community through political engagement and legislation.

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

We will be extending the survey due date! Once we close responses, we will be sharing the results online!

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Adoptee Voices Rising is building a community grassroots legislative organizing group and wants to hear from adoptees about what our community cares about most! If you're an adoptee, fill out by Nov. 30th. #AdopteeRealTalk

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[Benjamin Lundberg Torres Sándwich 🥪🥪 @b_lts_]

Adoption and foster care emerge from the intentional control and destruction of Indigenous kinship through the forced removal of children from Indigenous communities, and their forced assimilation into European cultures.

🧵#NAAM2022 #AdoptionIsTraumaAND #AdopteeTwitter #FFY 1/6

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Learn more about ICWA and how you can support the campaign to #ProtectICWA by signing this petition and following the @ProtectICWA accounts on Twitter and Instagram. https://t.co/BmKPoWT7BO

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Listen to Native people like @rebeccanagle about why we must #ProtectICWA in this podcast series that goes into depth about how the far right is using Native children to attack American Indian tribes and advance a conservative agenda. https://t.co/KtM61bqNxW

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

The attack on ICWA is a coordinated attempt to undermine tribal sovereignty. If they succeed in dismantling it, they will have cleared the way for a larger attack on Native families, land, and tribal sovereignty. We must work together to #ProtectICWA. https://t.co/BmKPoXaItm

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Learn more about the harm of removing Native children from their families and cultures from a Native American adoptee who lived it. Sandy White Hawk shares her story. This is why we must #ProtectICWA.
https://t.co/D6YR0ztFzN

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Did you know that when #ICWA was passed in the 1970s, research found that 25-35% of all Native children were being separated by state child welfare and adoption agencies, and 85% of that were placed outside of their families and communities? Learn more: https://t.co/rHJiElGZAS

[Protect ICWA @ProtectICWA]

We're here at the Supreme Court steps in D.C. to show our collective support for #ICWA! Paul Day (Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe) will formally open our gathering with a blessing & invocation shortly. Join us!

[MCC Washington Ofc. @mccwashington]

Uptown Singerz, an intertribal Powwow drum group based in DC, sing in front of the Supreme Court to #ProtectICWA. #ICWA keeps AI/AN children connected to their culture, extended family and community.

[FosterClub @fosterclub]

We're tuning into arguments at the Supreme Court today which will impact Native foster youth and families. Learn why we must #ProtectICWA here > https://t.co/UHM7LZS9QZ

[People vs. Fossil Fuels @FightFossils]

Boosting this important action today to #ProtectICWA and defend tribal sovereignty against Bug Oil! Please share widely ⬇️

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Prioritizing family placements and keeping sibling groups together has been a part of ICWA since the 70s. Now, ICWA is considered the gold standard for child welfare policies and practices that should be afforded to all children. #ProtectICWA https://t.co/BmKPoXaItm

[IllumiNative @IllumiNative]

ICWA protects Native children, and we need to #ProtectICWA.

Join our campaign by sharing this artwork by Morningstar Designs and toolkit on Instagram. https://t.co/pygXojOmOd

[indianz.com @indianz]

PROTECT ICWA. STOP COLONIZERS. STOP STEALING NATIVE KIDS.

A large crowd is gathered outside of the U.S. Supreme Court with speeches, song and prayer as the justices debate the fate of the Indian Child Welfare Act. #StopColonizers #DefendICWA #ProtectICWA #ICWA #SupremeCourt

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Did you know that from 1958-1967, the federal government enacted a program called the Indian Adoption Project, with the goal of white Americans adopting Native children (a form of genocide)? Learn more about the history of #ICWA and why we must protect it. https://t.co/ksxeiuT1Be

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

This case has huge implications for Native children and their families and also has the potential to impact the future of Tribal Nations. The @ProtectICWA Campaign and its supporters understand the importance of this law. Stand with Native kids! Sign now! https://t.co/BmKPoWT7BO

[TheGoodAdoptee @TheGoodAdoptee]

This case has huge implications for Native children & their families and also has the potential to impact the future of Tribal Nations. The @ProtectICWA Campaign and its supporters like @AdopteeVRising understand the importance of this law. Stand with Native kids! #AdopteeTwitter

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Adoption is a major decision made for a child. ICWA ensures that this decision is given careful consideration so that the unique needs of Native children are met. As an adoptee, that's why I'm speaking out to #ProtectICWA. Sign here to share your support https://t.co/BmKPoWT7BO

[Adoptee Voices Rising @AdopteeVRising]

Stealing children from their families, their communities, and their cultures is traumatic. ICWA protects identity, familial network, and sense of belonging, which are things that all children need. #ProtectICWA and sign this petition https://t.co/BmKPoXaItm

[Adoptees United @AdopteesUnited]

Today, #SCOTUS is considering a case that could take away important protections for Native children and families. #ProtectICWA

You can listen LIVE here now: https://t.co/B2W3VUeU7D

[IllumiNative @IllumiNative]

Gathering outside of the Supreme Court to support and #ProtectICWA.
#SCOTUS is hearing oral arguments now in Brackeen v. Haaland.