S.D. tribes look to establish foster care services on reservations

S.D. tribes look to establish foster care services on reservations:

Five South Dakota tribes have asked the federal government for financial assistance to help operate their own foster care services.

The federal Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), passed by Congress in 1978, sought to keep American Indian foster children with American Indian families. Yet more than 35 years later, 80 percent of tribal children are still showing up in white foster homes in South Dakota.