Research Catalog

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, Ontario ; Buffalo, New York ; London, England : University of Toronto Press, [2021]
• ©2021

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Details

Description

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
• Indian Act (Canada)
• 1951-1980
• 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
• Indigenous peoples > Government relations
• Child welfare
• Interracial adoption
• Aboriginal Canadians > Adoption of children > Government policy
• Aboriginal Canadians > Assimilation
• Aboriginal Canadians > Enfranchisement
• Aboriginal Canadians > Indian Act, 1876
• Saskatchewan
• Canada

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-314) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

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.

ISBN

• 9781487500641
• 1487500645
• 9781487520458
• 148752045X
• 9781487511524 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781487511517 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2020476333

OCLC

• on1127103378
• 1127103378
• SCSB-9785875

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library