Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship /

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 m...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Stevenson, Allyson D., 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2021].
Series:	Studies in gender and history ; 51.
Subjects:	Canada. > Indian Act. Sixties Scoop, Canada, 1951-ca. 1980. Interracial adoption > Canada. Interracial adoption > Saskatchewan. Child welfare > Canada. Child welfare > Saskatchewan. Indigenous children > Canada > Social conditions. Indigenous children > Saskatchewan > Social conditions. Indigenous peoples > Canada > Government relations. Indigenous peoples > Saskatchewan > Government relations. Indigenous peoples > Kinship > Canada. Indigenous peoples > Kinship > Saskatchewan. Indigenous peoples > Relocation > Canada. Indigenous peoples > Relocation > Saskatchewan.

Table of Contents:

Bleeding heart of settler colonialism
Adoptive kinship and belonging
Rehabilitating the "subnormal [Métis] family" in Saskatchewan
Green Lake Children's Shelter experiment : from institutionalization to integration in Saskatchewan
Post-war liberal citizenship and the colonization of Indigenous kinship
Child welfare as system and lived experience
Saskatchewan's Indigenous resurgence and the restoration of Indigenous kinship and caring
Confronting cultural genocide in the 1980s
Conclusion : Intimate Indigenization
Epilogue : Coming home
Appendix: Road allowance communities in Saskatchewan.