by Mike Gouldhawke, May 3, 2021

A review of Métis scholar Allyson Stevenson’s book, Intimate Integration, about the ’60s Scoop, via Briarpatch magazine.

An adoptee herself, Stevenson describes Saskatchewan, the province in which she was born and raised, as “the heart of Canada’s colonial enterprise,” the place where Indigenous elimination has been “rendered most violently.”

Click here to read the full article.

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See also:

Reckoning with genocide and the denialism of the Canadian state: An interview with Indigenous scholar Tamara Starblanket | Canadian Dimension (2021)

The history of the 1960s scoop of Indigenous children in Prairie Canada | Witness to Yesterday podcast interview with Allyson Stevenson (2021)

Canada continues shirking its human rights obligations to First Nations children, by Pam Palmater (2021)

Cash still a question mark with Indigenous child welfare reform law | APTN News (2021)

Prisoner Resistance Across the Prairies (2021)

Calls to Action Accountability: A 2020 Status Update on Reconciliation | Yellowhead Institute (2020)

Other deaths linked to B.C. Aboriginal agency running group home where Indigenous teen died | CBC (2020)

November 27th marks a dark day in the history of the Battlefords | CJWE FM (2020)

Storying Violence: Unravelling Colonial Narratives in the Stanley Trial, by Gina Starblanket & Dallas Hunt (2020)

nîpawistamâsowin: We Will Stand Up | NFB (2019)

‘I just want to hug her’: Sask family works to reunite with aunt taken to Europe in 60s Scoop | CBC (2019)

Coming home: Raven Sinclair and the Sixties Scoop | Discourse Magazine PDF (2018)

Finding Cleo podcast | CBC (2018)

Adopt Indian Métis program called ‘racist,’ ‘cultural genocide’ | CBC (2018)

Sixties Scoop left heart wrenching legacy for Métis families, too | APTN (2018)

The night the residential school burned to the ground — and the students cheered | CBC (2018)

How the death of Colten Boushie became recast as the story of a knight protecting his castle | Globe & Mail (2018)

The Stanley verdict and its fallout is a made-in-Saskatchewan crisis, by Paul Seesequasis (2018)

Court of contention: A look back at crimes that divided a province | Regina Leader-Post (2018)

Birth of a Family | NFB (2017)

How I lost my mother, found my family, recovered my identity, by Betty Ann Adam (2017)

Selling the Sixties Scoop: Saskatchewan’s Adopt Indian and Métis Project, by Allyson Stevenson (2017)

Colonial Legacy of the CCF: An interview with Allyson Stevenson (2016)

Canada’s Residential Schools: The History, Part 1 Origins to 1939 (PDF, 2015)

Truth and Reconciliation Commission Reports (2015)

Identity lost and found: Lessons from the sixties scoop, by Raven Sinclair (PDF, 2007)

A Place Between – The Story of an Adoption | NFB (2007)

Native Spirituality in Prisons, by M. Gouldhawke (2005)

Two Worlds Colliding | NFB (2004)

The Killing of Leo LaChance – Ron Bourgeault (1994)

Foster Child | NFB (1987)

Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child | NFB (1986)

Cultural Genocide, Intentionally Planned – Rose Bishop (1975)

Maria Campbell’s speech to the Native Peoples Caravan in Toronto (1974)

Métis Women Against the “Adopt Indian and Métis” Program – Phyllis Trotchie, Nora Thibodeau & Vicki Racette (1971)

1885 Northwest Resistance (Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada)