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The online public event (available at this link: ) revealed complex, intimate, intense and unique pathways with intersections of colonial systems, identity formation, and enduring racism. The creative outcome was a Zoom oral history headphone verbatim performance. An Advisory committee of adoptees guided the research and 22 collaborators (including the Advisory committee) worked together to ensure a co-authored representation of these long-silenced voices. This collaborative oral history research-creation, grounded in Indigenous methodologies (Kovach, 2009 2010 Smith, 1999 Wilson, 2008), amplifies the critical narrative of transracial/intercountry adoption through the life stories of individuals who experienced transracial/intercountry adoption (adoptees), regardless of their places of origin and adoption. Further, it should contribute to forging social work's future in recognizing the injustices and challenges accompanying its colonial history and present. These observations should inform the interrogation of contemporary social work practice in Canada regarding its positionality in relation to Indigenous persons. These articles portray contrasting discourses on Indigenous subjectivities and social work responses, reflecting conflicting perspectives in social work.
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The study found that minimal attention was given to Indigenous issues in Canadian social work, only 30 articles touching on Indigenous issues directly. The study involved an analysis of the contents over the life of the journal from 1932 to 2019. Noting that the broad dataset of over 1,500 journal articles represents legitimized knowledge within the discipline, the study aimed to develop a history of the present to interrogate the discourses relating to such practice.
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This is why the NCTR is in full support of an inquiry into the 60’s Scoop System.This article, towards decolonizing social work, reports on a study that examined the record of Canadian social work regarding Indigenous Canadians through the lens of the national professional association's journal. The inquiry is a way to help families understand the legacy of the scoop to provide an opportunity to heal, understand and repair the legacy, and for all Canadians to understand how many children were lost. The NCTR was born from the TRC, and our mandate will continue the work of the TRC to understand the legacy and ongoing truth of all harms done to Indigenous children.įinding this truth means hearing from those affected directly, nationally and internationally to hear from all the children, the families and the individuals that ran those systems to fully understand the colonial historical record of the scoop and what really happened. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s (TRC) mandate was to understand the injustices and harms of residential schools and to expose the truth. Both systems were institutional tools of genocide meant to take Indigenous children away from their parents, their families, their nations and territories, and their culture to try to obliterate Indigenous identities. The governments and their systems did not succeed. The Residential School system came first, followed by the scoop, where Indigenous children were taken from their families and put into the foster care system and adopted out to non-Indigenous people around the world. Government systems made it possible for this cruelty to happen and in doing so, further tried to destroy and tear thousands of Indigenous families apart. The 60’s scoop system has been estimated to have “scooped” 20,000 infants and children away from their families.
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The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) is in full support of the 60’s Scoop Legacy of Canada and their call for the federal government to commission a national inquiry into Indigenous child removal.
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The National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation (NCTR) supports the 60s Scoop Legacy of Canada and their Call for a National Inquiry.