NPR Series on South Dakota Indian Foster Care Revisited and Critiqued by Ombudsman

A year and a half after National Public Radio aired damning charges against South Dakota’s handling of foster care for Native American children, the news agency’s ombudsman said Friday that the three-part investigative series was “deeply flawed.”

NPR logoRead more about the ombudsman’s report at the Argus Leader website.

Read the ombudsman’s report and the NPR response at the NPR website:

S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 1: Investigative Storytelling Gone Awry
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 2: Abuse In Taking Children From Families?
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 3: Filthy Lucre
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 4: The Mystery Of A Missing $100 Million
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 5: Who Is To Blame For Native Children In White Homes?
S. Dakota Indian Foster Care 6: Where It All Went Wrong — The Framing

NPR’s Response to the Ombudsman