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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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/196558 2023-05-15T16:15:48+02:00 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 Johnson, Shelly 2021-12-10 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196558 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v36i1.196558 eng eng UBC Faculty of Education http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196558/191517 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/CJNE/article/view/196558 doi:10.14288/cjne.v36i1.196558 Copyright (c) 2021 Canadian Journal of Native Education Canadian Journal of Native Education; Vol. 36 No. 1 (2013) 0710-1481 10.14288/cjne.v36i1 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion Peer-reviewed Article 2021 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v36i1.196558 https://doi.org/10.14288/cjne.v36i1 2023-01-04T07:51:12Z 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 researchagendas. A clear recommendation for Canada, emerging from this research, is to establish an independent Indigenous advocacy organization to focus solely on the education of Indigenous children in its child protection system. Its mandate must be toeliminate the educational gap between Indigenous children that have been removedfrom their families and relocated to Canada's child protection system and those thathave not. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) Canada Indian |
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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 researchagendas. A clear recommendation for Canada, emerging from this research, is to establish an independent Indigenous advocacy organization to focus solely on the education of Indigenous children in its child protection system. Its mandate must be toeliminate the educational gap between Indigenous children that have been removedfrom their families and relocated to Canada's child protection system and those thathave not. |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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