The ICWA explicitly applies to adoptions involving Native American children. It was enacted for situations exactly like this one.

It's a little bit more than "backsies" the tribe is suppose to have knowledge of the adoption of native children because of the way the federal government systemically attempted to erase their heritage by taking children from their parents/the tribe and adopting them out to white parents. It was a form of genocide. …

Disagree. It's one thing to give up parental rights if you think that the other parent is taking responsibility for the child. It is a different thing to give up parental rights knowing the child will be put up for adoption. Do I condone his initial actions? No. Not at all, but the two situations are different and…