Introduction : Indian experience and Randall Kennedy's mythology / Matthew L. Fletcher and Wenona T. Singel
Working on the front lines : the role of social work in response to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 / Suzanne L. Cross, Angelique G. Day, and Emily C. Proctor / The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 and its impact on tribal sovereignty and governance / Terry L. Cross and Robert J. Miller
ICWA and the commerce clause / Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Reparations, self-determination, and the seventh generation / Lorie M. Graham
A practitioner's view from thirty years on the cutting edge of the indian child welfare act / Mary Jo B. Hunter
Differing concepts of "permanency" : the adoption and safe families act and the Indian Child Welfare Act / B. J. Jones
The disconcerting vicissitudes of state judicial power : determining if good cause exists to deny transfer in ICWA cases / Allie Greenleaf Maldonado
Keeping it in the family : the legal and social evolution of ICWA in state and tribal jurisprudence / Lorinda Mall
Holding back the tide : the existing indian family doctrine and its continued denial of the right to culture for indigenous children / Aliza G. Organick / A decade of lessons learned : advocacy, education, and practice / LeAnne E. Silvey
Where have all the children gone? When will they ever learn? / Maylinn Smith
In defense of ICWA : the constitution, public policy and pragmatism / Carol L. Tebben.