White People Adopting Native American

In the US you will have to deal with the Indian Child Welfare Act. This is a federal law that deals with adoptive placement of Native children. The Act states that Native children can be placed with adoptive families in the following order: 1) Native biofamily 2) Native, same tribe, non-biofamily 3) Native, different tribe, non-biofamily 4) Non-native The tribe has to agree to the adoptive placement of any tribal members (or the children of tribal members) and has up to two years from the date of finalization of the adoption to become involved.