State ex rel. Adams v. Superior Court for Okanogan County

This is a review by certiorari of an order of the Juvenile Court for Okanogan County wherein the court declared relator’s four minor children, dependent children; permanently deprived the parents of their custody and made them wards of the court subject to placement for adoption.

The children are enrolled members of the Colville Indian Tribe, and they resided, at all times material to this review, on a Colville Indian allotment to which the United States held title. The allotment is located on what is known as the south half of the diminished Colville Indian Reservation.

The sole issue for…