We Are the Ones We've Been Waiting For: Towards the Development of an Indigenous Educational Advocacy Organization for Indigenous Children in Canada's Custody ...
The influential Indian Control of Indian Education (ICIE) policy statement, writtenby the National Indian Brotherhood (NIB) in 1972, galvanized widespread Indigenousresistance to Canadian human rights abuses that included child apprehension policiesand practices (Hansen, n.d.). Forty-one years since...
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Canadian Journal of Native Education
2021
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v36i1.196558 https://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196558 |
| Summary: | The influential Indian Control of Indian Education (ICIE) policy statement, writtenby the National Indian Brotherhood (NIB) in 1972, galvanized widespread Indigenousresistance to Canadian human rights abuses that included child apprehension policiesand practices (Hansen, n.d.). Forty-one years since its release, and three years afterthe Assembly of First Nations re-affirmed its principles in its First Nations Control ofFirst Nations Education (2010) policy document, the ICIE serves as the policy contextfrom which this Indigenist study begins. Two purposes drive this study. The first purpose is to examine the implications of the ICIE policy on contemporary urban Indigenous child populations living at the intersection of Canada's child protection andeducation systems. The second purpose is to evoke the presence of this silenced population of Indigenous children, and privilege their Canadian educational and child protection experiences in peer-reviewed literature, policy, practice, advocacy, and ... : Canadian Journal of Native Education, Vol. 36 No. 1 (2013) ... |
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