In re G.L. CA6
According to the Department’s trial court filings, the maternal grandparents confirmed on July 27, 2020, that they had no Native American ancestry, stating they were from Mexico. E.L. also denied Indian ancestry for herself and stated she did not know about the children’s father’s ancestry during the course of the proceedings. However, at a hearing on October 5, 2021, E.L. stated she believed she had Indian ancestry but had not studied her family’s history and did not know if they had ancestry in a tribe in California. She also stated that she and the children had never lived on a reservation, did not have tribal identification cards, and that the children had never been wards of a tribal court. Neither the court nor the Department investigated Indian ancestry further prior to the selection hearing.
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