A federal court has ruled, for the first time, that the federal government is obligated to meet the mental health and wellness needs of Native American students as part of its educational obligations to those children.
The families of nine children, who are members of the Havasupai tribe, filed a lawsuitagainst the federal government in January 2017 for failing students who attend Havasupai Elementary, located in the remote village of Supai in the Grand Canyon.
The federal government had sought to dismiss a number of the claims brought in the suit, but the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona upheld many of the original counts. The court did, however, dismiss five of the nine children’s cases because those children no longer attend Havasupai Elementary.
[For more on this story by Christie Renick, go to https://chronicleofsocialchang...t-against-feds/30368]
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