Exam 12: Indigenous Families

Discuss jurisdictional matters on-reserve.

Discuss the issues surrounding the Sixties Scoop.

The purpose of the residential school system was to Christianize, civilize, and assimilate First Nations people into the greater body politic of Canada.

"Unphysiologically" is determined by Smith-Rosenburg and Rosenburg (1999) to be the engagement with non-feminine activities such as labour outside of the home, reading or studying in excess.

The Royal Commission on Aboriginal Affairs emphasized how provincial child welfare agencies were well-equipped to deal with Indigenous communities and cultural practices.

In 2007, the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society and the Assembly of First Nations filed a complaint against the federal government to the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal citing discrimination in child welfare practices against First Nations' children and youth.

What is the importance of the Haudenosaunee with regard to reproduction practices?

Why did residential schools have high mortality rates?

As early as the age of ________, children were removed from their communities with the aid of Indian Agents.

Land that was traditionally non-privatized pre-contact became the corporate property of the _______ in 1670, and subsequently land title was transferred in the creation of the province of Manitoba in 1870.

Today, there are close to 80,000 residential school survivors still living. Many of these individuals are a part of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement that was negotiated between individuals, the churches, and the federal government. The settlement is believed to be the largest in Canadian history at ________

Describe the importance attributed to the lives of Chanie Wenjack and how it connects to the broader experiences of residential school victims and survivors.

One of the amendments to the Indian Act in 1844 stipulated that Indigenous spiritual practices and ceremonies were banned.

A(n) _______ "Indian" is an individual whose name is recorded in the Indian registrar according to the Indian Act.

Most homes on-reserve are occupied by families through Certificates of Possession. These certificates are predominantly held by men on the reserve. In the event of relationship breakdowns, the mother/wife/common-law partner would not be legally entitled to an equitable division of assets. This threatens her ability to gain custody of her children, remain within her community, and survive.

Johnston (1983) found that during the Sixties Scoop, 40 to 50 per cent of Indigenous children were apprehended by provincial child welfare agencies and placed in non-Indigenous homes.

What is a major problem with Certificates of Possession?

In an attempt to "kill the Indian in the child", the residential school system became mandated and mandatory for all status-Indian children under the Indian Act.

In the event of the breakdown of a marriage or common-law relationship, or in the event of death of a common-law partner or spouse, families are entitled to the equitable division of property as protected through provincial legislation. Because provinces are not responsible for lands or peoples on-reserve, and the Indian Act had not been legislated with real property implications, Indigenous families and their interests are not protected.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, Indigenous children would come to represent approximately ________ of all children in care nationally.