{"id":12286,"date":"2024-02-09T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T08:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/?p=12286"},"modified":"2024-10-07T00:20:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T07:20:14","slug":"i-screamed-b-c-indigenous-child-welfare-advocates-celebrate-court-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/?p=12286","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I screamed\u2019: B.C. Indigenous child welfare advocates celebrate court victory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth McSheffrey  Global News  Posted February 9, 2024 7:00 pm<\/p>\n<p>WARNING: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised.<\/p>\n<p>Indigenous child welfare advocates in B.C. are celebrating a \u201chuge win\u201d in Ottawa on Friday, where a federal law affirming that First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit people have sole authority to protect their children was upheld in court.<\/p>\n<p>Mary Teegee, chair of the Indigenous Child and Family Services Directors Forum, said she heard the news in a morning phone call from her lawyer, who told her the case had been \u201cwon on every point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course I screamed, I was really happy, it was just a great wonderful moment for our children \u2014 a huge win for our children,\u201d Teegee told Global News. \u201cOur most important resource is our children.\u201d   <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/10284914\/bc-indigenous-advocates-celebrate-court-victory\/\"> <strong>Read the complete article here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Elizabeth McSheffrey Global News Posted February 9, 2024 7:00 pm WARNING: This story deals with disturbing subject matter that may upset and trigger some readers. Discretion is advised. Indigenous child welfare advocates in B.C. are celebrating a \u201chuge win\u201d in Ottawa on Friday, where a federal law affirming that First Nations, M\u00e9tis and Inuit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-room"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustooadvocacy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}