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Article: South Dakota hearings on American Indian child-welfare law turn emotional.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- November 3, 2004
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By David Melmer, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Nov. 3--PINE RIDGE, S.D. - A series of listening sessions by the Governor's Commission on the Indian Child Welfare Act found the heat turned up on emotions, frustration and anger as witness after witness asked that their children, grandchildren, nieces and nephews be returned home.
"You take out children out of our lands by usurping our laws. It is like a military action, it's a form of assimilation so that we will forget the treaties," said Cornell Conroy, a member of the Brave Heart Society. "The Brave Heart Society is to protect the children. The U.S. ...