Other Indian Tribes, Not Feds Can Fill Perceived Foster Care Void

No question that Indian children should stay within their own culture.  The same is true for all other cultures.  Imagine that you and your spouse were killed in a car accident: would you want your son or daughter to be brought up in a totally different world, out of your race, perhaps even in a Third World country–with values and traditions that have little to do with who you really are?

         Massive federal money is the last thing that Indians need to train them in how to be good parents, even foster parents.  They already know–and have known for centuries and millennia.  It’s hardwired into being human.  Indians are strong and heroic, as we all are, by nature.

    Federal money comes with way too many strings attached from the left.  In their proposals, potential recipients must debase themselves to get the money.  Poverty, drunkenness, and crime must be exaggerated to show how bad the problem is.

     No, Indians are not pathetic losers who need federal money to be taught how to be human (as liberals would like to have us think).  Hasn’t federal involvement in Indian affairs taught us something over the decades?

     Indians should not generally be lumped together as a “one size fits all” homogeneous group.  Each Indian nation has an individual identity worth a lot more.  Even so, it seems that if foster children can’t be placed within their own Indian nation, then another tribe or nation would at least share some common values and traditions.  After all, North America is a big place if local options aren’t sufficient (see map).  The feds need not get involved.