Indian Child Welfare Act

on the other hand is an extreme end to understand where the fine line stands between the rights of the child and the protection of society. This comparison is important to note the new differential provision brought about in the Bill by India to treat the age group of 16-18. The age of majority is an important point of discussion to the international conventions regulating the rights of the child as it is necessary for every nation that is a signatory to conform to its regulations. The United…

constitutes as troublesome that needs to be changed. A social problem is not considered to be a social problem unless it is seen as a violating or threatening the fundamentals of society. They span the entire spectrum of the population: white, black, Indian, and Hispanic men, women, and children. No race is exempt; homelessness is an equal opportunity social issue. At the Bakersfield homeless shelter, I worked in the kitchen, and the service learning project raised awareness for me about the…

western feminists or humanitarian NGOs trying to to save ‘these people.’ Narayan also makes note of the fascination in which western feminists and individuals discuss these dowry murders as if they were out of the ordinary. She indeed states, native Indians are shocked by it too, because it happens to middle-class women, and it was not, on a national scale, a public matter. But US feminists see it as some exotic event or ritual for the reason that domestic violence fatalities in the US often…

that American Native Indians still have no clear answer on whether they are considered sovereign or not. The definition of sovereignty is to possess power, and although some Indian Tribes are climbing the ladder in earning this right, there is one reservation imparticularly that is suffering due to the neglect of the US Government. The Pine Ridge Reservation is one of the poorest areas in America and suffers great poverty due to the actions of the US Government. The Snyder Act of 1921 charged…

requirements for schools to enroll children with disabilities. Another landmark legislation occurred that year, called the “Indian Education Act”. This act recognized that American Indians have unique cultural, educational and linguistic needs that must be acknowledged in school. The original act has been retained with the latest revision occurring in the “ No Child Left Behind Act”. Though education was offered to both African- American and Whites post the Civil War period, there was a huge…

On the other hand the offender status is minor, that’s why their acts are considered to be delinquent. There are three man categories of juvenile delinquency: (i) Violent crimes which results in body injury., such as assault,rape,murder etc, (ii) Property crimes are committed when a juvenile uses violent force or threat…

organizations working toward bettering their country. The National AIDS Control Organization and the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act are two government programs dedicated towards improving the lives of its citizens. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MNREGA) is an Indian social security development act created in 2005 to ensure people living in rural areas the right to work. The organizations goals are to employ people who do not have skills in the…

agreement. Furthermore, all ladies were denied the privilege to vote. Women did not want to feel like anymore, they wanted to became part of the new society, where they are seeing as human beings not as their husbands property. In 1843, Lydia Maria Child argue in “Woman’s rights” that women would be able to achieve more by working alongside men, and women can achieve the same as men, there should be no barrier between them because both men and women are the same. Now that the society is changing…

Throughout history, it is a known fact that Native Americans were the first inhabitants of this land we call, America. Since, 1492 when Christopher Columbus who said, that the Americas were the lands of the Indies, called them Indians instead. The Native Americans were seen as “children”, savages, etc by the “white men” (British, French,etc). From the late 16th to the late 19th century, the population of Native Americans decreased from several causes such as: Being exposed to new diseases from…

M1 EQ: What is deculturalization? How does it function historically and in the present? When a student learns about America’s history, they learn about how America came to be and the struggles our country faced. I learned about some struggles but throughout this module, my eyes were opened to the unsettling way America came to be. When the settlers came to America, they were faced with a level of uncertainty but felt that it was their duty to bring civilization to the Western world (Spring,…