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ID302

Indigenous Children and Families

0.5 credits · Undergraduate

Fall 2023 · Indigenous Children and Family

Topics

  • Indigenous childhood and family systems
  • colonial disruption and the Sixties Scoop
  • resilience and resurgence
  • fathers and community care
  • healing and ceremony.

Readings

  • L. Makokis, ohpikinawasowin: Growing a Child (2020), selected pages.
    Required
  • Barbara Coloroso, Kids Are Worth It! (1994), chapters 1–2.
    Required
  • Tom Porter, And Grandma Said… (2008), child-rearing chapter.
    Required
  • Jessica Ball, Fathering in the Shadows: Indigenous Fathers and Canada’s Colonial Legacies (2007); Indigenous Fathers’ Involvement in Reconstituting Circles of Care (2010).
    Required
  • Selected screenings: Future History; Foster Child; Mother of Many Children; Finding Dawn; Monkey Beach.
    Other material
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