 Before enactment, as many as 25 to 35 percent of all Indian children were being forcibly removed, mostly from intact American Indian families with extended family networks, and placed in predominantly non-Indian homes, which had no relation to American Indian cultures.In some cases, the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) paid the states to remove Indian children and to place them with non-Indian families and religious groups.Testimony in the House Committee for Interior and Insular Affairs showed that, in some cases, the per capita rate of Indian children in foster care was nearly 16 times higher than the rate for non-Indians.