Statutes | Curyung Tribal Code tit. II, ch. 2 ยง 10 | 2019

The following placement preferences shall be applied in all cases where a child is placed in foster care unless the Tribal Court finds that it would be in the child&rsquos best interest to vary the order of preferences or place the child not according to the preferences:

     1. A member of the child&rsquos extended family who resides closer to, or, in the city or village in which the child resides.

     2. A member of the child&rsquos extended family who resides elsewhere.

     3. A member of the Curyung Tribe.

     4. A foster home, licensed, approved, or specified by the Curyung Tribe.

     5. A member of another Tribe with whom the child is culturally related.

     6. Or, in another Tribally approved home.