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The US supreme court has ruled that Native American children can continue to be protected under federal law against being removed from their tribal communities for fostering or adoption, rejecting a petition from a white couple who argued that the provision was a form of racial discrimination.
If I understand correctly, the opinion explicitly focuses on Indian tribes as nations – i.e. legal entities – not races.
Precisely