70% Of Children In SD Foster Care Are Native American, State Says

70% of children in South Dakota foster care are Native American, state says

Jewel Bruner, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, holds her 10-month-old granddaughter Emma on the patio of her home in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, on Sept. 20, 2023. Some of Bruner's grandchildren were living with her under kinship foster placements by the state Department of Social Services. (Photo by Samantha Laurey/Argus Leader)For the fourth year in a row, Native American children made up more than 70% of children in the South Dakota…

70 percent of children in South Dakota foster care are Native American, state says

70 percent of children in South Dakota foster care are Native American, state says kcpnews2 Wed, 12/17/2025 - 05:32 Image (South Dakota Searchlight) For the fourth year in a row, Native American children made up more than 70 percent of children in the South Dakota foster care system at the end of the state’s fiscal year.That’s six times higher than Indigenous children’s representation in the state’s population. White children, by comparison, m…

70% Of Children In SD Foster Care Are Native American, State Says

For the fourth year in a row, Native American children made up more than 70% of children in the South Dakota foster care system at the end of the state’s fiscal year.