Legal Opinion
Cherokee Nation v. Nomura
Supreme Court of Oklahoma
Decided May 22, 2007No. 102,875PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
WATT, Justice.
T1 This case was previously retained by this Court for disposition. It involves the interaction of the Oklahoma Indian Child Welfare Act (Oklahoma Act) 10 0.8.2001 §§ 40-40.9, the federal Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 (Federal Act), 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901, et seq., and the Oklahoma Interstate Compact on the Placement of Children (Interstate Compact Act), 10 0.8.2001 §§ 571-576. We consider the right of an Indian mother to place her child voluntarily for adoption with out of state non-Indian adoptive parents without consideration of the placement preferences of the Federal…
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