This Land

This podcast is created by Rebecca Nagle and produced by Crooked Media.

The second season of This Land is an exposé about how the far right is using the Indian Child Welfare Act to quietly dismantle Indigenous tribes and advance a conservative agenda. 

“ALM – as referred to in court documents – is a Navajo and Cherokee toddler. When he was a baby, a white couple from the suburbs of Dallas wanted to adopt him, but a federal law said they couldn’t. The Brackeens’ case would have been a normal adoption dispute, but then one of the most powerful corporate law firms in the United States took it on and helped the couple launch a federal lawsuit. Today, the lawsuit doesn’t just impact the future of one child, or even the future of one law. It threatens the entire legal structure defending Native American rights.”