She has been in his care for the last 2 years. She is happy and healthy.
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Because enrollment in the Cherokee Nation makes one Cherokee. Only American Indians are broken down into blood quantums, unless you include the ridiculousness of calling people mulatto, quadroon or octoroon, by the way.
Can you please send your resume to the Cherokee Nation? Haha.
Please read here SCOTUS Baby Veronica Fact Check
I'm sorry. It was the other way around. His name is "Dusten Brown." They name the mother's attorney's gave was "Dustin." I know if I were given the name "dustin" I would not automatically think "oh, let's check that with an 'e'." Just another thing in a long line of suck about this case.
Please feel free to share. I've been following and tangentially involved with this case for awhile now, and the amount of misinformation out there is staggering.
Here is a link to the Fact Checking for a lot of the things that have been reported, including the statement that Brown signed away his parental rights, with citations from the court transcripts:
He did not.
Nope, the NPR story is wrong. The South Carolina court found that he did NOT sign away his rights. I am looking for a link now, but they are hard to find in the court files.
A text is not a legal relinquishment of his rights:
The coverage of this case in the media has been shoddy at best. Please read the summary of the case from the National Indian Child Welfare Association:
He never relinquished his rights. The mother shut off contact to him and he found out about his daughter's birth 4 days before he was deployed to Iraq. He immediately found legal counsel.
He didn't. He said that he would in a text. That is not a legal document.
He never severed his rights. A text to the mother saying he would doesn't equal relinquishing his rights.
Doesn't matter. He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. The Cherokee Nation can choose their own citizenship standards. He meets their standards. He is Cherokee.
He is an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. His daughter, regardless of her blood quantum, is eligible to be an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation. It is a question of citizenship, not race.
He never relinquished his rights. After the mother stopped contact with him, he found about about the baby's birth and the plans for adoption four days before he was deployed to the Middle East. He had to ask the military to wait to deploy him so he could then assert his rights.