Federal lawsuit filed against Amerikan Gestapo for removal of Indian children from their homes!

RAPID CITY, South Dakota (PNN) - March 23, 2013 - Lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union Thursday filed a lawsuit on behalf of three American Indian parents, the Oglala Sioux Tribe and Rosebud Sioux Tribe for the illegal removal of Indian children from American Indian families in the Fascist Police States of Amerika District Court in Rapid City, South Dakota.

The 39-page lawsuit pertains to the lack of adequate hearings when American Indian children are removed from their familial home by Amerikan Gestapo thug officials.
In one case cited in the lawsuit, one custodial hearing lasted a mere 60 seconds. American Indian parents were not even allowed or permitted to see the court papers. The judge signed the documents to remove the children within in seconds.

The case has been in the making for months as American Civil Liberties Union attorneys reviewed the circumstances surrounding the procedures used in the Pennington Court system.

Stephen Pevar, an American Civil Liberties Union attorney, said, “This lawsuit seeks to put an end to disgraceful and unlawful practices that unfortunately have been standard practice in Pennington County, South Dakota, for a long time.”

Outside of the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Building in Rapid City, American Indians began to gather to protest shortly before 9:00 am. Facing brisk temperatures on the second day of spring that were in the low 20s, some 100 tribal members stood outside the federal building as the attorneys and Oglala Sioux Tribe President Bryan V. Brewer, Sr. went inside to file the lawsuit.

People carried signs that read, "Protect our children from the state" and "No more exploitation of Indian children."

Several tribal members were visibly upset as they took the microphone to tell their stories of how children were removed from their homes without due process by county or state of South Dakota officials.

Mary Black Bonnet, 38, a tribal citizen of the Rosebud Sioux Tribe, spoke about being removed from her family when she was only 18 months old and adopted by a non-Indian family and ended up in Niles, Michigan.

“I fought for 22 years to get back to my people. I kept telling myself, "I have to get away from these crazy people." I wanted to get back to my people,” said Bonnet, referring to her natural, American Indian family. As she spoke, her daughter clung to her.

Some of the attendees discussed how the state of South Dakota and Pennington County officials have ignored the Indian Child Welfare Act, ICWA, which was passed by Congress in 1978 in response to the large number of American Indian children who were removed from their homes at disproportionate rates.

Tribal Councilors Robin LaBeau and Robert Walters of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe attended the event to demonstrate the support of their Tribe to the lawsuit.