Letter to Rosalynn Carter from LaDonna Harris thanking her for the support in passing the Indian Child Welfare Bill

FIRST LADY 8 IN 2 AIÓ Fike PLAZA DEL SOL BUILDING SUITE 403 AMERICANS for INDIAN OPPORTUNITY 600 SECOND STREET, N.W. ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO 87102 (505) 842-0962 LaDonna Harris President November 9, 1978 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Honorable James Abourezk Lionel Bordeaux, Rosebud-Sioux Joan Bordman Mrs. Rosalyn Carter NOV 14 1978 Edgar Bowen, Coos-Oregon Lee A. Buck The White House Mary Jo Butterfield, Makah Washington, D.C. 20500 Price M. Cobbs, M.D. Ron Cournoyer, Rosebud-Sioux Eugene Crawford, Sioux Dear Rosalyn: Ada Deer, Menominee Jack Edmo, Shoshone-Bannock, Blackfeet Thanks for your help and support for the successful Coy. G. Eklund passage and the signing of the Indian Child Welfare Bill. Roy George, Sr., Nooksack This legislation will improve the opportunities for Indian LaDonna Harris, Comanche Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, families and children to have a normal and health life- C.S.C. style. Minerva Jenkins, Apache Louis LaRose, Winnebago Dennis Limberhand, Northern As you know, one of the problems identified by the Cheyenne President's Commission on Mental Health was the destruction Charles Lohah, Osage Grace McCullah, Navaho of Indian family structure and the capricious placement Betty C. Mele, Seneca of Indian children away from their families. It now seems Ed Mitchell, Penobscott this trend can be stopped and the opportunities for Indian Jerry Muskrat, Cherokee children increased. Joe Dan Osceola, Seminole Morgan Otis, Apache-Arapaho-Kiowa My many thanks to you. Ray Paddock, Tlingit-Haida Elma Patterson, Tuscarora Cal Peters, Squaxin Island With warm regards Jack Rushing, Creek Joe S. Sando, Jemez Pueblo Vickie Santana, Southern Piegan-Blackfeet x Eddie L. Tullis, Alabama Creek Jake Whitecrow, Seneca LaDonna Harris Cayuga, Quapaw President LDH/mt CC: Bess Abel Kathy Cade NOV 14 1978