6-Year-Old Girl Taken From Longtime California Foster Family for Being 1/64 Native American

 

By Elisha Fieldstadt

A 6-year-old girl was removed from the California home of the foster family she has lived with for four years because she has a tiny sliver of Native American heritage — despite resistance from her foster parents and their tens of thousands of supporters.

Rusty and Summer Page of Santa Clarita, California, have long fought to gain custody of Lexi, 6, who is 1.56 percent Choctaw Native American. That figure means that Lexi's home placement is dictated by the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. 

That law "seeks to keep American Indian children with American Indian families," according to its own language.  

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Source: NBC News