Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Metis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. Allyson D. Stevenson argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Metis 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, IntimateIntegration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare.
By:
Allyson Stevenson
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Country of Publication: Canada
Dimensions:
Height: 229mm,
Width: 152mm,
Spine: 28mm
Weight: 520g
ISBN: 9781487520458
ISBN 10: 148752045X
Series: Studies in Gender and History
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 04 December 2020
Audience:
College/higher education
,
Professional and scholarly
,
Primary
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Prologue 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
Allyson D. Stevenson is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina.
Reviews for Intimate Integration: A History of the Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship
Intimate Integration is politically sharp, carefully researched, and intellectually generous. Allyson D. Stevenson transforms how we see modern Canadian colonialism and the range of ways that Indigenous people have resisted and rebuilt in the face of it. - Adele Perry, Department of History and Women's and Gender Studies, University of Manitoba Deftly weaving together academic training in history and lived experience as a Metis adoptee, Allyson D. Stevenson provides a path-breaking, powerful, eye-opening study that is essential reading for Canadians seeking to understand the trauma of child removal on Indigenous families and communities as well as their resistance and resilience. - Sarah Carter, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta While the process of Truth and Reconciliation in Canada has raised awareness about residential schooling, what remains less known is the equally devastating systemic and ongoing assault on Indigenous children through the child welfare system. Allyson D. Stevenson thoroughly maps out this truth, shedding new light on the role of the state in causing multigenerational trauma to Indigenous families. - Kim Anderson, Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Relationships, University of Guelph, author of A Recognition of Being: Reconstructing Native Womanhood
- Short-listed for 2022 PROSE Award awarded by the American Association of Publishers 2022 (United States)
- Short-listed for Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples' Writing Award Saskatchewan Book Awards 2022 (Canada)
- Short-listed for Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award Saskatchewan Book Awards 2022 (Canada)
- Short-listed for Wilson Institute for Canadian History Book Award 2022 (Canada)
