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Canada Knows Better and Is Not Doing Better: Federal Government Documents Show Ongoing Discrimination Against First Nations Children Receiving Child Welfare Services on Reserve and in the Yukon

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada
Description
Submitted to the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights 55 Pre-Sessional Working Group Consideration of List of Issues, Sixth Periodic Report, Canada.
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Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 1, Part 1: The History, Origins to 1939; Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 1, Part 2: The History, 1939 to 2000; Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 2: The Inuit and Northern Experience; Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 3: The Métis Experience; Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 4: Missing Children in Unmarked Burials; Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 5: The Legacy; Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 6: Reconciliation

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
J. R. Miller
BC Studies, no. 191, Autumn, 2016, pp. 169-175
Description
Reviews of: Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 1, Part 1: The History, Origins to 1939 Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 1, Part 2: The History, 1939 to 2000 Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 2: The Inuit and Northern Experience Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 3: The Métis Experience Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 4: Missing Children in Unmarked Burials Canada's Residential Schools. Volume 5: The Legacy Canada's Residential Schools.
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Caregiver-Infant Attachment For Aboriginal Families

Alternate Title
Child and Youth Health
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Cindy Hardy
Description
Fact sheet discusses importance of health and well-being to infant attachment and the impact colonization has had on relationships in Aboriginal families. Provides list of online resources for parents and caregivers.
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Case Study of the Development of the 1998 Tribal State Agreement in Minnesota

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Evelyn Campbell
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 5, no. 2, 2010, pp. 45-52
Description
Discusses the history of the American Indian women who initiated legislative changes to the Indian Child Welfare Act, and looks at recommendations to address the problems associated with the lack of compliance to current legislation across Canada and the United States.
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Case Study Report: Tawow Healing Home

Alternate Title
Shining Mountains Living Community Services: Project Number: 1397-AB
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Flora Kallies
Dolores Gadbois
Description
Description and evaluation of project designed to provide culturally-based therapeutic environment for families at risk for involvement with child protection services. Sources of information include project files, Aboriginal Healing Foundation Supplementary Survey, and key informant interviews with project team and selected community service providers.
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The Cedar Project: Negative Health Outcomes Associated with Involvement in the Child Welfare System among Young Indigenous Peoples Who Use Injection and Non-injection Drugs in Two Canadian Cities

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Adam F. Clarkson
Wayne M. Christian
Margo E. Pearce
Kate A. Jongbloed
Nadine R. Caron ... [et al.]
Canadian Journal of Public Health, vol. 106, no. 5, July/August 2015, pp. 265-270
Description
Sample of 605 individuals between the ages of 14 and 30 years of age from Prince George and Vancouver, British Columbia. Those who had been taken from their biological parents were more likely to be HIV-positive, homeless, paid for sex, diagnosed and hospitalized with mental illness, self-harmed, and had thought about or attempted suicide.
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A Chance to Make a Difference for this Generation of First Nations Children and Young People: The UNCRC and the Lived Experience of First Nations Children in the Child Welfare System in Canada

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Cindy Blackstock]
Description
Document submitted to the Standing Senate Committee on Human Rights. Recommendations: provide sustained and equitable funding to agencies, augment services available on reserves, ensure culturally-based services, and develop a national strategy to deal with issues.
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A Change of Residence: Government Schools and Foster

Homes as Sites of Forced Aboriginal Assimilation – A Paper Designed to Provoke Thought and Systemic Change

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Cathy Richardson
Bill Nelson
First Peoples Child & Family Review, vol. 3, no. 2, 2007, pp. 75-83
Description
Discusses similarities of two residential structures, government schools and foster homes, that have housed Aboriginal children when they were removed from their people. The paper is an attempt to influence child welfare practice in ways that would respect the integrity of family and Aboriginal communities.
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Characteristics of Investigations Involving First Nations Children Compared to White Children in Ontario in 2013

Alternate Title
Information Sheet (Canadian Child Welfare Research Portal) ; #192E
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Kenn Richard
Jennifer Ma
Barbara Fallon
Description
Uses information from the Ontario Incidence Study of Reported Child Abuse and Neglect-2013. Statistics for child functioning issues, caregiver risk factor concerns, and household risk factors.
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Charlie Chief 1 Interviewer

Alternate Title
Indian History Film Project
Oral History » Oral Histories
Author/Creator
Charlie Chief
Alphonse Littlepoplar
Indian History Film Project
Description
Interview of Charlie Chief who discusses the a Grass Dance, Round Dance and Sioux Dance (including songs). Also included are songs. The discusses the difference between old and new ways. Alphonse Littlepoplar is the intterpreter
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Child Abuse Protocol Development Guide

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Tribal Law & Policy Institute
Description
Guide and workbook developed for local Child Protection Teams or multi-disciplinary teams to help expand protocols for responding to child abuse and child sexual abuse.
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Child and Youth Mental Health and Wellness: Intervention, Research, and Community Advocacy in Nunavut: Perspectives of Foster Families Working with the Nunavut Foster Care System

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Teri Lindsay
Gwen K. Healey
Description
Based on interviews with 17 foster parents and 15 frontline workers and managers in the system, and a literature review. Purpose of study was to identify strengths, gaps, and trends, examine practice patterns, and identify needs of both parents and workers.
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Child Death Review: Karen Rose Quill

Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Deborah Parker-Loewen
Description
Case involved a 20-month-old who died while in a foster home and under the care of the Saskatchewan Dept. of Social Services. Concluded that the death was preventable.
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Child Welfare

Alternate Title
The Justice System and Aboriginal People
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
Aboriginal Justice Inquiry
Description
Chapter 14, vol. 1 of the Report of the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry of Manitoba.
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Children and Youth in Care (CYIC) [British Columbia as at March 31, 2018]

Alternate Title
Performance Indicators Children and Youth in Care (CYIC)
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
[Ministry of Children and Family Development (MCFD)
Government of British Columbia]
Description
Data for Indigenous and general population on: rate per 1,000 population; number who exited to permanency; trend in discharges from care to permanency; per cent of children who eligible for adoption placed in homes; recurrence of maltreatment; placement changes; foster parent retention; residential costs; and bed and contract utilization.
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The Children of Tomorrow's Great Potlatch

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ernie Crey
BC Studies, no. 89, In Celebration of Our Survival: The First Nations of British Columbia, Spring, 1991, pp. 150-158
Description
Looks at effects of the Indian Act and the damage done to First Nations children in residential schools and child welfare services.
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Citation: Brown v. Canada (Attorney General): Superior Court of Justice - Ontario Division Court: Re: Marcia Brown and Robert Commanda, Plaintiffs and: The Attorney General of Canada, Defendant: Proceedings Under the Class Proceedings Act, 1992, S.). 1992, c.6

Alternate Title
Citation: Brown v. Canada (Attorney General), 2014 ONSC 1583, Division Court File No.: 523/13, Date: 20150311
Documents & Presentations
Author/Creator
W. Matheson
Morris Cooper
Jeffrey Wilson
Description
Claim on behalf of Aboriginal children removed from their homes (The sixties scoop) in Ontario between 1965 and 1984.
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Colonial Violence in Sixties Scoop Narratives: From In Search of April Raintree to A Matter of Conscience

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Petra Fachinger
Studies in American Indian Literatures, vol. 31, no. 1-2, Spring-Summer, 2019, pp. 115-135
Description
Author analyzes three different novels in order to provide a complex and nuanced perspective on the different ways that the ‘60’s Scoop has been treated by Indigenous authors over a prolonged period (1983-2018). Includes discussion of Beatrice Mosionier In Search of April Raintree, Robert Arthur Alexie's The Pale Indian, and James Bartleman's A Matter of Conscience.
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Come-Backs/Reincarnation as Integration; Adoption-Out as Disassociation: Examples from First Nations Northwest British Columbia

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Antonia Mills
Linda Champion
Anthropology of Consciousness, vol. 7, no. 3, September 1996, pp. 30-43
Description
Compares one child's experience of growing up in the Gitxsan/Witsuwit'en culture to that of a child adopted out of the community in terms of the cultural belief of rebirth of an Elder or relative in a baby.
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