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PEOPLE IN INTEREST OF J.J.

Nos. 16217, 16669 and 16672.

454 N.W.2d 317 (1990)

The PEOPLE of the State of South Dakota in the Interest of J.J. and S.J., Children and Concerning V.J., Grandmother.

Supreme Court of South Dakota.

Decided April 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Bratt, Asst. Atty. Gen., Pierre, Roger A. Tellinghuisen, Atty. Gen., on the brief, for appellee, State of S.D.

Kenneth E. Jasper, Rapid City, for children.

Larry D. Plank, Black Hills Legal Services, Rapid City, for mother.

G. Verne Goodsell, Rapid City, for father.

Frank A. Bettmann of Bettmann & Feehan, Rapid City, for grandmother.

B.J. Jones, Dakota Plains Legal Services, Fort Yates, N.D., for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.

MORGAN, Justice.

This proceeding comes before us as the consolidation of three separate appeals from the actions of the trial court with regard to the termination of custodial rights in two minor Indian children, S.J. and J.J. (children). It being undisputed that the children are of Indian blood, the provisions of 25 U.S.C. Chap. 21, the Indian Child Welfare Act (Act) are implicated. Reference to specific sections of the...

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