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Ilana Panich-Linsman

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A bitter custody battle threatens affirmative action laws, tribal rights, and the future of one little girl.

Please see the full article here at The New York Times.

From left, Semira, Tatum, and Alexandria look up at the sky on the reservation.

Celeste Smith, a social worker for the Navajo Nation. “We have our traditions, our ceremonies and our language handed down to our children,” she said. “We don’t want to lose that.”

Craig Tabaha, Jackie’s cousin, feeding sheep and goats at the home of Alvetta James, on the Navajo reservation in a remote part of Arizona.

Craig Tabaha, who is Jackie’s cousin, works on a weaving.

Alvetta James, great-aunt to Zachary and the baby girl, lives on a ranch with sheep, goats, herding dogs, chickens and horses.

From left, Tatum, Alexandria, Mayson and Semira. “The four siblings want little sister to come back now,” Ms. James told the court.

Looking at a photo of Zachary’s baby sister, who is the center of the custody battle between the Brackeens and the Navajo Nation.

Mayson, 14, fills a pitcher with water.

The girls ride in a truckbed.

Semira, 13, wearing turquoise jewelry.

Tatum, Mayson and Semira using a school workbook to practice the Navajo language.

Mayson plays the ukulele.

When Tatum played a song on the ukulele, Ms. James, left, and her sister Louisa Curley were moved to tears.

Ms. James with Alexandria, left, and Mayson, 14, preparing a Mother’s Day meal. Ms. James’s mother, Betty, is at rear.

Alvetta James is the caretaker for her mother Betty.

From left, Semira, Tatum and Alexandria, Zachary’s Navajo half sisters, on the reservation in Arizona.

Semira, 13, and Mayson, 14, play with a rocking horse.

Alexandria, 17, embracing her sister Semira, 13, during a hike.