What is everyones reaction to this story..?

Yea, well this isn't the only way that the law is flawed.

It's a shame for the kid, because he didn't choose to be born one way or another.

However... where does the argument come from? Native Americans people were historically the victims of a continental genocide. The survivors were relegated to de facto concentration camps, where their problems continue.

Tribes have actually become extinct as a result. So there is a distinct possibility of more tribes becoming extinct. So I can understand why they would feel the need to bolster their numbers.

Of course the argument in that article appeals to ones emotions and would argue "what difference should it make what the ethnic background is?" But obviously it has been a matter of life and death for some.

thats rediculous! ok so it's dear old mothers fault that she messed up and did drugs, and now the kid who had a chance to be happy despite his messed up child hood with drugs in his system, gets it all taken away because he's native american and his parents are white? i'm sorry but the mother shouldnt have the right to ask for her child back if everyone knows shes an unfit parent. So now this poor kid gets uprooted from a bad family to a great family only to b put into foster care? thats so messed up.

wow that blows my mind. i think everyone should have done a little more research about this situation before they adopted. i can understand both sides. the tribe and the adoptive parents. what i don't understand is why no one is considering the welfare of the child. to take a child from a loving home to be put into foster care is just wrong.

So a child of a majority of another race is taken away because he has a couple of drops of Native in him. There is that good old "tolerance" at work.

Just as well though...apparently the mother has defective genetics and this family would have raising a progeney of that. Painful yes but like many other things some pain must be accdepted for the greater good.

Let the tribe have him..he is their burden now.

Yes I know. One of my friends was adopted and they had to make sure the tribe couldn't take her away. It's sad because they could have a much better life with more opportunities. I could understand if there was a law that they have to help the tribe in some way but being taken away from a better home?

It all sounds a bit silly, to say the very least.

It's almost like the direct opposite of what went on in Australia for several decades, but still potentially as tragic.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_generation

I think Native American poor people need an education to stop drugs, but I am sure they do not see it that way. If it where British the parents would get taken to court.

That's Crazy! But, my cousin went through the exact same thing and lost custody to her child's father b/c of the same reason!

It's soo sad and kind of annoying I Agree