When the federal government opened foster-care assistance to Native American tribes in 2008, more than 80 expressed interest in the program.
By 2014, however, just 27 tribes had applied and only five had been approved for the federal program, their efforts hobbled by a lack of resources, inflexibility by federal bureaucrats and cultural insensitivity, according to a Government Accountability Office report.
Read the full report at the Arizona Daily Star website.