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Book SynopsisPrivileging 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. Allyson D. Stevenson 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 their families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the Sixties Scoop.
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.
Table of ContentsPrologue Introduction 1. The Bleeding Heart of Settler Colonialism Indigenous Legal Orders and the Indian Act From wáhkôhtowin to Transracial Adoption 2. 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 Law 3. 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 Newspapers Government Documents Statues, Regulations, and Court Cases Statutes of Canada Saskatchewan Statues Statutes of the United States Archival Series Printed Government Documents Canada. Department of Citizenship and Immigration. Indian Affairs Branch. Annual Reports, 1950–1965 Printed Primary Sources Secondary Sources Websites
