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Close Call For Indian Rights in Baby Girl Ruling

Equal Protection

When it ruled that a Cherokee girl could be returned to her adoptive parents, the Supreme Court came close to invalidating an act that has protected Indians for 40 years. It could have been worse, writes Marcia Zug

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