The Whole DSS Situation in Swain County is Outrageous

If you haven't been keeping up the huge screw up by Swain County's Department of Social Services, here it is in a nutshell. A 15-month-old girl died after being left in a car seat for 12 hours on January 10. She had only been given bites of a hotdog to eat and sips of soda. Her diaper was soaked with urine and feces.
Swain County's DSS placed the girl with a great aunt after her mother was arrested on drug charges. DSS allegedly covered up evidence of abuse, and when things came to light, the department acted by responding with slaps on wrists, certainly not the firings and possible criminal charges that should've resulted. Thank you Swain County Commissioners for asking the entire board to resign. I'm glad somebody acted.
The girl was an Eastern Band tribal member, and I can only draw from the DSS' lack of action that the lives of Native American children just aren't worth that much to them. Am I wrong? Then can you honestly say that had this happened to a white child that the same lack of action would've occurred? I think not.