Original sentence: The congressional hearing concerning the ICWA found that somewhere between 25 percent to 35 percent of all Indian children had been removed from their families and placed in foster or adoptive homes and institutions from 1969 to 1974
Edited sentence: Awareness of the issues facing American Indian children came about from the advocacy and research by the Association on American Indian Affairs in the mid-1900s.The congressional hearing concerning the ICWA learned of research by the Association on American Indian Affairs which found that somewhere between 25 percent to 35 percent of all Indian children had been removed from their families and placed in foster or adoptive homes and institutions from 1969 to 1974