Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship
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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.
Product Details
- Series: Studies in Gender and History
- World Rights
- Page Count: 352 pages
- Illustrations: 47
- Dimensions: 6.0in x 1.0in x 9.0in
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Author Information
Allyson D. Stevenson is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. -
Table of contents
Prologue
Introduction
1. The Bleeding Heart of Settler Colonialism
Indigenous Legal Orders and the Indian Act
From wáhkôhtowin to Transracial Adoption2. 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 Law3. 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
NewspapersGovernment Documents
Statues, Regulations, and Court Cases
Statutes of Canada
Saskatchewan Statues
Statutes of the United States
Archival Series
Printed Government DocumentsCanada. Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Indian Affairs Branch. Annual Reports, 1950–1965
Printed Primary Sources
Secondary Sources
Websites
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