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The Fight For Native Families 

Director/Producer. For Al Jazeera's Fault Lines series with correspondent Wab Kinew. The film investigates why after the passing of the Indian Child Welfare Act so many Native American children are caught in the child welfare system in South Dakota and  are still being sent into foster care with non-native families. 

Reported, curated, and co-created accompanying Lost Birds Interactive Feature featuring the stories of five children, now adults, who were taken from their families.  From the 1950s to the 1970s the U.S. government as well as many private agencies and religious organizations tried to “save” Indian children by taking them away from their families and tribes and placing them in foster care or putting them up for adoption in non-Native homes. 

A study by the Association on Indian Affairs in the 1970s found that between 25 percent and 35 percent of all Indian children had been separated from their families. In some states Native children were 13 times more likely to be removed from their homes than non-Native children. 

Native Americans call these children “lost birds”.  

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