Prologue
Introduction
1. The Bleeding Heart of Settler Colonialism
Indigenous Legal Orders and the Indian Act
From wáhkôhtowin to Transracial Adoption
2. Adoptive Kinship and Belonging
Gender and Family Life in Cree Métis Saskatchewan
The Emergence of the Euro-Canadian Adoption Paradigm
Indigenous Adoption and Euro-Canadian Law
3. Rehabilitating the “Subnormal [Métis] Family” in Saskatchewan
4. The Green Lake Children’s Shelter Experiment: From Institutionalization to Integration in Saskatchewan
The Social Work Profession and the Rationalized Logics of Indigenous Child Removal in Saskatchewan
5. Post-War Liberal Citizenship and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship
The 1951 Indian Act Revisions and the rise of “Jurisdictional Disputes”
6. Child Welfare as System and Lived Experience
Adopting a Solution to the Indian Problem
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
Bibliography
Primary Sources
Interviews
Newspapers
Government Documents
Statues, Regulations, and Court Cases
Statutes of Canada
Saskatchewan Statues
Statutes of the United States
Archival Series
Printed Government Documents
Canada. Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Indian Affairs Branch. Annual Reports, 1950–1965
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Websites