"I screamed internally for a long time" : traumatized urban indigenous children in Canadian child protection and education systems ...

• Main Author: Johnson, Shelly Lee
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: University of British Columbia 2011
• Subjects: First Nations
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/1.0064654; https://doi.library.ubc.ca/10.14288/1.0064654

This Indigenist study is the first to enter the contested space that is the unique educational site of traumatized Urban Indigenous children in Canadian child protection systems. It identifies the historic, political, socio-legal, legislative, financial and jurisdictional wrangling and impediments to their academic and traditional Indigenous educational success. Specifically, this study explores the intersectionality of educational and child protection issues identified in the literature and personal experiences of twenty-nine Urban Indigenous former children in Canada’s child protection system and representatives of two Urban Indigenous delegated child protection agencies. The research participants claim Indigenous membership or ancestry in fifty-two First Nations and Métis communities and either grew up on, or are currently living on, traditional Coast Salish territories in the Urban communities of Victoria and Vancouver, BC. Saulteaux star blanket theoretical and methodological approaches inform the ...