US Indian Policy as Racial Discrimination, Pacifica Radio's Law and Disorder Program Interviews Lakota People's Law Project's Daniel Sheehan (5 min)

"According to Lakota People’s Law Project Chief Counsel Daniel Sheehan, United  States policy toward Native Americans has focused on assimilation since the days  of mandatory boarding schools in which children were taken from their families  and tribes and were brutally forced to leave their language and customs through  physical and psychological abuse. Sheehan alleges that this policy of racial  discrimination and cultural destruction has continued due to widespread  non-compliance with the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 which was intended to  reverse US policy toward American Indians...."
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10862266.htm

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