{"id":46191,"date":"2016-03-23T22:37:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46191"},"modified":"2017-02-19T21:35:03","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:35:03","slug":"six-year-old-taken-from-california-foster-family-under-indian-child-welfare-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46191","title":{"rendered":"Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/mar\/22\/girl-taken-california-foster-family-native-american-child-welfare-act\" target=\"_blank\">Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2016-03-22<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Santa_Clarita,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Clarita, California<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Utah\" target=\"_blank\">Utah<\/a> relatives<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A six-year-old girl who spent most of her life with <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/California\" target=\"_blank\">California<\/a> foster parents was removed from the home under a court order that says her Native American blood requires her to live with relatives in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Lexi, who is 1\/64th <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Choctaw\" target=\"_blank\">Choctaw<\/a> on her birth-father\u2019s side, cried and clutched a stuffed bear as her foster father Rusty Page carried her out of his home north of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> to a waiting car on Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Los_Angeles_County,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles County<\/a> social workers whisked her away&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2016\/mar\/22\/girl-taken-california-foster-family-native-american-child-welfare-act\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Six-year-old taken from California foster family under Indian Child Welfare Act The Guardian 2016-03-22 The Associated Press in Santa Clarita, California Lexi, who has lived with the foster family for years, was removed by a court order which says her Native American heritage requires her to live with Utah relatives A six-year-old girl who spent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,1467,8,3015,20],"tags":[2822,23297,23298,8569,2103],"class_list":["post-46191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-law","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-usa","tag-associated-press","tag-indian-child-welfare-act","tag-rusty-page","tag-the-associated-press","tag-the-guardian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46191"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51626,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46191\/revisions\/51626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}