Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship / Allyson D. Stevenson.
Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship / Allyson D. Stevenson.
By
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Stevenson, Allyson D., 1976-
Publication Date
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2021
Publication Information
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Toronto : University of Toronto Press,
Volume
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51
Physical Description
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xv, 328 p. : ill., maps.
Subject Term
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Interracial adoption -- Canada.
Child welfare -- Canada.
Indigenous children -- Canada -- Social conditions.
Forced migration.
Indigenous peoples.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Kinship -- Canada.
Indigenous peoples -- Canada -- Government relations.
Indigenous peoples -- Cultural assimilation -- Canada.
Series
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STUDIES IN GENDER AND HISTORY ;
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-314) and index.
Summary
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Documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and MÔetis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. The author argues that the integration of adopted Indian and MÔetis 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.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781487520458
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