IKE 3020

This course will explore: the history of Indigenous child welfare in Canada; the transfer of Federal responsibility to provinces in 1951; the reasoning for the 60's Scoop, Millennial Scoop, and overrepresentation in the child welfare system; the TRC's first five "Calls to Action"; Bill C-92; western perspectives that have been forced upon Indigenous families; the importance of ceremony and the connection to Indigenous values and; returning to the circle of Indigenous ways of being