I see the point in this but I've also seen Native American children ripped from loving caring foster homes who wish to adopt them and give them a permanent home with family - just to place them with a foster family who happens to share their ethnicity?  Of course you rarely get much follow-up by the media but common sense tells me this helps no one and only serves to emphasize the very intolerance for each other we are trying to get rid of in this country. I'm part Creek and I know if another Creek child who was in a foster care situation with a family of white, black, green or whatever people who love him or her and want the very best for them in their lives that part of that would be helping them understand who they are and where they come from. I don't think these children are being "converted" from Native American no more than an African American child in a loving white or other  hone would be converted. So what exactly are we protecting? Isn't the point to get these kids in homes?