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PEOPLE IN INTEREST OF A.T.W.S.

No. 93CA0708.

899 P.2d 223 (1994)

The PEOPLE of the State of Colorado, In the Interest of A.T.W.S., a Child, Upon the Petition of the Denver Department of Social Services, Petitioner-Appellee, and Concerning Robert Moore and Elizabeth Moore, Intervenors-Appellees, and Leech Lake Band of the Minnesota Chippewa (Ojibwe) Tribe, Intervenor-Appellant, and Concerning Teri Lynn Wakanabo f/k/a Teri Lynn Smith, Thomas William Morrison, John Doe, and All others claiming an interest in said Child, Respondents.

Colorado Court of Appeals, Div. III.

Rehearing Denied December 22, 1994.

Certiorari Denied August 14, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Pamela A. Gordon, guardian ad litem.

Daniel E. Muse, City Atty., Office of City Atty., Leah L. Audin, Asst. City Atty., Denver, for petitioner-appellee Denver Dept. of Social Services.

Allen B. Alderman, Denver, for intervenors-appellees.

Whiteing & Thompson, Sandra Hansen, Boulder, for intervenor-appellant.

M. Kathryn Bradley, Denver, for respondents.

Opinion by Judge PLANK.

In this dependency and neglect proceeding concerning A.S., a Native American child, the Leech Lake Band of Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (Tribe) appeals an order of the juvenile court which denied transfer of jurisdiction to a tribal court under the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), 25 U.S.C. § 1901, et seq. (1988). We affirm.

On May 3, 1988, the Denver Department of Social Services (DDSS) filed a dependency and neglect petition concerning...

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