INDIGST 1AA3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Sixties Scoop, Pickup Truck, Indian Act
10 Sep 2018
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Tina fauntain- she was in the child welfare, living in hotel, pulled over in pickup truck with a man. Woman is the first environment----- women birthing- relationship with land- relationality- Nation, community, family/clan- immediate family, children, sibling- have similar relationship as with clan, individual. Child go to another family- nationhood--- do try to place indigenous child with family- since 1950s, child taken and given to white family off reserves. In 1951, twenty-nine aboriginal children were in provincial care in british columbia; by 1964, that number was 1,466. Aboriginal children, who had comprised only 1 percent of all children in care, came to make up just over 34 percent. Children placed into residential schools to transition into child welfare agency. Other children given to people in the us. No parent support program at the time on reserve. Native children and the child welfare system , 1983, patrick johnson (1983), federal department of social policy development entitled.
