New Mexico Resources

Laws, etc:

• Statutes
• Cases
• Court Rules
• Regulations

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Guides:

• Preserving Native American Families in New Mexico: The Indian Child Welfare Act & The Adoption & Safe Families Act. Prepared by Shaenig & Assoc., The New Mexico Tribal-State Judicial Consortium, and The New Mexico Supreme Court's Court Improvement Project Task Force. Revised May 2005.
• Child Welfare Handbook. Corinne Wolfe Children’s Law Center and the New Mexico Judicial Education Center at the University of New Mexico School of Law.

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Contacts:

Tribes
Tribal ICWA contacts: List of Indian Child Welfare Act Designates, Bureau of Indian Affairs
Tribal directories - National Indian Law Library

State
New Mexico Children, Youth, and Families Department

Legal organizations
New Mexico Bar Association, Indian Law Section
American Bar Association - State and Local Bar Association Directory

For additional links to legal resource organizations -- beyond those offered by the state bar association -- use the National Indian Law Library's Guide to Legal Assistance Resources. Some organizations (bar associations, legal services, law firms and lawyers, and legal clinics at universities) might provide ICWA assistance.

Other contacts
National organizations, grant programs & urban Indian centers