Statutes | Lummi Nation Code of Laws Title 8 Chapter 8.06 ยง 8.06.010 | 2020
The Lummi Nation acting through the Lummi Indian Business Council finds and declares that the relationship and bond between parents and their children is of paramount importance to the future of the family and to the future of the Lummi Indian Tribe. However, there are occasionally instances where non-accidental injury, neglect, death, sexual abuse, and cruelty to children have occurred by their parents, custodians, or guardians, and in those situations where a child is deprived of the child&rsquos right to minimal conditions of safety, health, and nurture, the Nation is justified in intervening on behalf of the child to preserve and protect those rights of the child. It is for these reasons that the Lummi Indian Business Council has enacted this Chapter of the Lummi Code of Laws to be known as the Child Abuse and Neglect Law.