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

Title
Intimate integration : a history of the Sixties Scoop and the colonization of Indigenous kinship / Allyson D. Stevenson.
Author
Stevenson, Allyson D., 1976-
Publication
  • Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
  • ©2021

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xv, 328 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm.
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."--
Series Statement
Studies in gender and history ; 51
Uniform Title
Studies in gender and history ; 51.
Subject
  • Canada
  • Child welfare > Canada
  • Child welfare
  • Indian Act (Canada)
  • Indigenous children > Canada > Social conditions
  • Indigenous peoples > Canada > Government relations
  • Indigenous peoples > Kinship > Canada
  • Indigenous peoples > Relocation > Canada
  • Interracial adoption > Canada
  • Interracial adoption
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.
Additional Formats (note)
  • Issued also in electronic format.
ISBN
  • 1487500645
  • 9781487500641
  • 9781487520458
  • 148752045X
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library