2 Year Old Minnesota Native American Child Killed in White Foster Home – Biological Family Outraged

July 12, 2016

2 Year Old Minnesota Native American Child Killed in White Foster Home – Biological Family Outraged

2 year old Kira Friedman. Image source.

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Local media in Minnesota is reporting that a 2 year old Native American child originally from the Fond du Lac Reservation was found dead in her foster home last month (June 2016). The Star Tribune reports:

A Bemidji man accused of killing his 2-year-old foster daughter has a criminal record that would have prevented him from being a care provider under a law signed this month by President Obama, records show.

Nathan Daniel Jackson, whose home had a foster license from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, has been charged with two counts of second-degree manslaughter. He’s accused of leaving the girl, Kira Friedman, unattended in a shower with an 18-gallon plastic bin on June 5, according to the criminal complaint.

Jackson told police that he left the girl in the shower and when he returned found her in the bin, which was full of water. Police found Kira in the basement of a home with bruises to her head and body and blood draining out of her nose. A preliminary autopsy found that the girl drowned.

Both Jackson’s girlfriend, Amanda White, and his sister told police they were concerned he was using methamphetamine or other drugs.

Based on court records and media reports, it appears that this home was not a safe environment to place a child.

So how did this happen?

Danielle Taylor, writing for Northland News Center, reports:

‘This didn’t have to happen. This little girl didn’t have to die. She should be right here with her parents at this time,’ said Patti Larsen, a family spokesperson.

Larsen, who serves as the Sacred Hoop Coalition Director, was shepherding 2-year-old Kira Friedman’s case through the St. Louis County Court system on behalf of the little girl’s family, and believes her death was preventable.

‘The maternal grandmother identified numerous people who would be potential placements for the child,’ she said.

Larsen wanted to ensure Kira was placed in a Native American home. Therefore, she says the County let this child down when they removed her from a Native foster home, and placed her with a white foster family in Duluth.

‘Kira was just a number, was shipped off to a place,’ Larsen said.

Complicating matters further is the fact that the child was placed into an alleged dangerous white foster home, not by Minnesota DHS, but by the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. Part of the band’s mission, it explains on its website, is to seek “extended family members or other Native Families to care for children who need to be placed out of the home.”

It would appear that the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe did not follow their own policy. Instead of placing the girl with family members who wanted her, they placed her into a white foster home with a man that had a past criminal record, and now a 2 year old Native American child is dead.

Other stories about Native American children being kidnapped by the State:

South Dakota Commits Shocking Genocide Against Native Americans by Abducting Their Children

Native American Children in Maine Five Times as Likely to be Placed in Foster Care as non-Native Children

Corrupt North Carolina Officials Try to Silence Whistleblower Using Child Protection Services

Published on July 12, 2016

Tags: Kira Friedman, minnesota, Native American|

7 Comments

Rose July 23, 2016 at 8:02 am - Reply

In Alaska we have a law protecting our native children they have to be placed with a native family. It’s not an agreement it’s law. My heart goes out to this family. I could not deal with loosing one of my grand children. I hope there is something this family can do legally

Mommy Love 7 July 14, 2016 at 9:19 am - Reply

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Brian July 13, 2016 at 5:31 pm - Reply

E-Freebird said:

@Brian said:

L.Moorcroft said:

Firstly I would like to say that the foster family being white had nothing to do with it . My own child is white and her foster carer is from Africa and she is a child abuser too . What disturbs me the most is that it is more than likely that these children are being sexually abused in care . Child Protection take them away .Child Protection hand them to sex offenders and child abusers . Child Protection fail to give them the vitamin b12 they need for their undiagnoseed and untreated deficiencies and pernicious anemia . When they die in care , Child Protection investigate the death .
Are these babies and children having an unnaturally early puberty caused by a failure by health professionals to identify vitamin b12 deficiency in their mothers during pregnancy , which is causing them to be born with a low birth weight , which causes them to have an early puberty . Are child protection then stealing them from parents and handing them over to sex offenders and child abusers ? Are the children in care who have allegedly died , really died or are they being hidden and abused ? Why are Child Protection being allowed to investigate deaths of children in care ? Could some of these children be getting murdered by their foster carers after being sexually abused ? Are their bodies then taken by Child Protection who dispose of the evidence ?
In this case, race IS important because there are federal laws in place requiring Native American children to be placed in foster homes of other Native American families to preserve their culture. So it only matters here because federal law is being violated. It is true that legal child kidnapping in America overall is a problem regardless of race.
Federal laws in place but not enforced, or, especially when states rewrite their "constitutions" to define their own self serving versions of ICWA. Maybe white should be replaced with non indian home. Sure hope the agenda of the us government, to destroy ICWA, does not overshadow the damage CPS does to all families, tribal or not.

"Sure hope the agenda of the us government, to destroy ICWA, does not overshadow the damage CPS does to all families, tribal or not."

Not on MedicalKidnap.com. We report on all abuses and damage done by CPS regardless of race.

E Freebird July 13, 2016 at 5:29 pm - Reply

@Brian said:

L.Moorcroft said:

Firstly I would like to say that the foster family being white had nothing to do with it . My own child is white and her foster carer is from Africa and she is a child abuser too . What disturbs me the most is that it is more than likely that these children are being sexually abused in care . Child Protection take them away .Child Protection hand them to sex offenders and child abusers . Child Protection fail to give them the vitamin b12 they need for their undiagnoseed and untreated deficiencies and pernicious anemia . When they die in care , Child Protection investigate the death .
Are these babies and children having an unnaturally early puberty caused by a failure by health professionals to identify vitamin b12 deficiency in their mothers during pregnancy , which is causing them to be born with a low birth weight , which causes them to have an early puberty . Are child protection then stealing them from parents and handing them over to sex offenders and child abusers ? Are the children in care who have allegedly died , really died or are they being hidden and abused ? Why are Child Protection being allowed to investigate deaths of children in care ? Could some of these children be getting murdered by their foster carers after being sexually abused ? Are their bodies then taken by Child Protection who dispose of the evidence ?
In this case, race IS important because there are federal laws in place requiring Native American children to be placed in foster homes of other Native American families to preserve their culture. So it only matters here because federal law is being violated. It is true that legal child kidnapping in America overall is a problem regardless of race.

Federal laws in place but not enforced, or, especially when states rewrite their "constitutions" to define their own self serving versions of ICWA. Maybe white should be replaced with non indian home. Sure hope the agenda of the us government, to destroy ICWA, does not overshadow the damage CPS does to all families, tribal or not.

Brian July 13, 2016 at 4:18 pm - Reply

L.Moorcroft said:

Firstly I would like to say that the foster family being white had nothing to do with it . My own child is white and her foster carer is from Africa and she is a child abuser too . What disturbs me the most is that it is more than likely that these children are being sexually abused in care . Child Protection take them away .Child Protection hand them to sex offenders and child abusers . Child Protection fail to give them the vitamin b12 they need for their undiagnoseed and untreated deficiencies and pernicious anemia . When they die in care , Child Protection investigate the death .
Are these babies and children having an unnaturally early puberty caused by a failure by health professionals to identify vitamin b12 deficiency in their mothers during pregnancy , which is causing them to be born with a low birth weight , which causes them to have an early puberty . Are child protection then stealing them from parents and handing them over to sex offenders and child abusers ? Are the children in care who have allegedly died , really died or are they being hidden and abused ? Why are Child Protection being allowed to investigate deaths of children in care ? Could some of these children be getting murdered by their foster carers after being sexually abused ? Are their bodies then taken by Child Protection who dispose of the evidence ?

In this case, race IS important because there are federal laws in place requiring Native American children to be placed in foster homes of other Native American families to preserve their culture. So it only matters here because federal law is being violated. It is true that legal child kidnapping in America overall is a problem regardless of race.

Mommy Love 7 July 13, 2016 at 10:03 am - Reply

EVIL CPS strikes again. How many more children have to die before this abusive agency is held accountable?

How much more are you going to take Americans?

How much longer will people turn a blind eye to the atrocities being committed by this agency?

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L.Moorcroft July 13, 2016 at 10:03 am - Reply

Firstly I would like to say that the foster family being white had nothing to do with it . My own child is white and her foster carer is from Africa and she is a child abuser too . What disturbs me the most is that it is more than likely that these children are being sexually abused in care . Child Protection take them away .Child Protection hand them to sex offenders and child abusers . Child Protection fail to give them the vitamin b12 they need for their undiagnoseed and untreated deficiencies and pernicious anemia . When they die in care , Child Protection investigate the death .

Are these babies and children having an unnaturally early puberty caused by a failure by health professionals to identify vitamin b12 deficiency in their mothers during pregnancy , which is causing them to be born with a low birth weight , which causes them to have an early puberty . Are child protection then stealing them from parents and handing them over to sex offenders and child abusers ? Are the children in care who have allegedly died , really died or are they being hidden and abused ? Why are Child Protection being allowed to investigate deaths of children in care ? Could some of these children be getting murdered by their foster carers after being sexually abused ? Are their bodies then taken by Child Protection who dispose of the evidence ?