Brittani Lopez cuddled her 15-month-old daughter while testifying at a virtual hearing before the Colorado state Legislature earlier this year.
Elizabeth, who spent her early months in the child welfare system, wore a pink onesie and tugged at her Sicangu Lakota mother’s long porcupine-quill earrings as Lopez urged lawmakers to improve Colorado’s Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA). The baby breastfed as her mother read the notes she had feverishly scribbled on printer paper — descriptions of losing her daughter to foster care.
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