I need each and every person who sees this to pay attention to what is going on with the Indian Child Welfare Act.

The same SCOTUS that refered to tribal land as a territory of the state is about to hear a case that might overturn ICWA.

ICWA allows Alaska Natives and Native Americans control over the adoption and foster care placement of Native American and Alaska Children. In practice what this ensures is that if a Native American or Alaska Native child cannot be raised with their parents', the extended family will be given custody. If the extended family cannot care for the child, the child is placed with a family in their tribe or, barring that, with a family who is Native American or Alaska Native.

This act is important for two reasons:

For centuries, Native Americans and Alaska Natives were forcibly assimilated into White culture. From the 1800s to the late 1900s, children were taken from their families and either adopted out to White people or put in boarding schools. If parents refused, they were sometimes incarcerated, and they could lose custody of their other children. There are cases where tribes would hide their children and tell people who came that they had none...so the white people started showing up uannounced. The children sent to these schools were abused. Some were murdered. And survivors still live with the trauma. ICWA was passed to stop this...but not even 50 years after it being passed, it's at risk.

Native Americans and Alaska Natives are constitutionally guaranteed sovereignty. We all know the government picks and chooses when it wants to honor that, but Native Americans and Alaska Natives are supposed to have sovereignty. The idea that one country can step in and tell sovereign tribes and nations that they are not allowed to control the placement of their own children should be absurd. The U.S. doesn't tell Britain what to do with their foster care system...but the SCOTUS knows that Native Americans and Alaska Natives don't have an army or navy like Britain does. Because of this the SCOTUS believes it has the right to violate years of precedent and treaties. It knows that it will be protected no matter what it decides.

So I'm asking people to keep an eye on ICWA. I'm asking them to boost the signal. And I'm asking them to protest if it falls.

"As a Welcome gift, I wanted to make you something super personal, so I concocted this remix of "Worlds Apart" using nothing but my voice. Hope you dig it and drift off to another dimension while I get all psychonaut on your eardrums. :) <3" -Kerli If you want a free download click this link or go to http://kerli.socialtoaster.com/ <3

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Kerli’s ‘Love Is Dead’ album artwork by Natalie Shau

Kerli - “Savages”

Honestly, this song hasn’t been the same since I saw it with the music video. Music videos come standard with music now-a-days and some of them just don’t hit the mark, but this one did. I am also a sucker for black and white aesthetics, great performance art and sensual or sexual themes.

Kerli has been around for a while and I’d call this song extremely honest to life and one of her best. My favorite part are the lyrics. I enjoy this song most with the vocals at their original loud volume and the ‘instruments’ backing turned down with variation in the bass because a lot of pop-type songs these days blare everything and the most gorgeous part of this song are the voices. The 'instruments’ (digital) aren’t bad, they’re just too loud.

This song is one from outside my usual favorite genres, I don’t care much for pop music, as most of it feels incredibly soulless and boring, but I do care about this song because it’s better than average pop music.

“And I curse this hell, and I hate your guts, and I swear I will pay for this craving. Never again. Never again… But we’ll be making love like savages. I’ll lick the poison from right off your kiss. Fall on rosy thorns for a taste of lethal bliss. Oh we’ll be making love like savages. Savages. Savages…”

If you never look outside your favorite genres you’ll never experience unexpectedly good music. so, go looking.

(I do not own or profit from mention of this video and music.)

Kerli by Dave Schwep

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