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Uncovering Colonial Legacies: Voices of Indigenous Youth on Child Welfare (Dis)Placements
Author(s) -
Navia Daniela,
Henderson Rita Isabel,
First Charger Levi
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1111/aeq.12245
Subject(s) - indigenous , welfare , colonialism , storytelling , sociology , gender studies , criminology , welfare system , political science , narrative , law , ecology , linguistics , philosophy , biology
Through art and storytelling, Indigenous youth highlight continuity between recent experiences in child welfare systems and Canada's residential schools of the twentieth century. Between mid‐2014 and mid‐2015, twenty Indigenous youth collaborators (eighteen to twenty‐nine years) in Calgary, Canada critiqued how child welfare systems become complicit with assimilationism, perpetuate gendered violence, and contribute to the dispossession of land and resources. Their perspectives demonstrate how settler colonialism continues to shape the lives of Indigenous youth in child welfare (dis)placements.