Intimate integration : a history of the sixties scoop and the colonization of indigenous kinship / Allyson Stevenson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Stevenson, Allyson D., 1976- author.

Series:

Studies in Gender and History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Child welfare--Canada.

Child welfare.

Interracial adoption--Canada.

Interracial adoption.

Sixties Scoop, Canada, 1951-ca. 1980.

Canada--Indian Act.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (352 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Métis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Métis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from Indigenous families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the "Sixties Scoop." Intimate Integration utilizes an Indigenous gender analysis to identify the gendered operation of the federal Indian Act and its contribution to Indigenous child removal, over-representation in provincial child welfare systems, and transracial adoption. Specifically, women and children’s involuntary enfranchisement through marriage, as laid out in the Indian Act, undermined Indigenous gender and kinship relationships. Making profound contributions to the history of settler-colonialism in Canada, Intimate Integration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

1 The Bleeding Heart of Settler Colonialism

2 Adoptive Kinship and Belonging

3 Rehabilitating the “Subnormal [Métis] Family” in Saskatchewan

4 The Green Lake Children’s Shelter Experiment: From Institutionalization to Integration in Saskatchewan

5 Post-War Liberal Citizenship and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship

6 Child Welfare as System and Lived Experience

7 Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Resurgence and the Restoration of Indigenous Kinship and Caring

8 Confronting Cultural Genocide in the 1980s

Conclusion: Intimate Indigenization

Epilogue: Coming Home

Appendix: Road Allowance Communities in Saskatchewan

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-1152-3

1-4875-1151-5

OCLC:

1233040567