 The court denied the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma the right to intervene in the case, stating that the ICWA did not apply.The court also held that even if the ICWA did apply, the trial court committed no reversible error because the non-Indian mother would have objected to the transfer of the case to a tribal court and, thus, defeated the transfer.This case was the basis for development of a body of jurisprudence around the "existing Indian family" exception to ICWA.