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Article: AFN attempts to intervene in native children's adoption case.(Children & Families)
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- September 22, 2003
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HAMILTON -- Preventing the adoption of native children by white families requires "extraordinary measures" Assembly of First Nation chief, Phil Fontaine, wrote to Mr. Justice George Czutrin on Sept. 5, asking him to consider the importance of native heritage in deciding who will get custody of two half-native girls. However, the judge will not read the letter.
Two families are fighting to prevent the Hamilton Children's Aid Society from sending the sisters to the Squamish Nation reserve where their mother was born.
The unusual, but not illegal, communication was handed over by the judge to the the lawyers for the parents and the CAS. The lawyers agreed ...