Allyson D. Stevenson is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina. Stevenson uses this text to weave together her academic training and her âcimisowin (lived experience) as a Métis adoptee to provide a detailed analysis of the Sixties Scoop in Western Canada. The text documents the North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Métis Project and the Indian Adoption Project, primarily focusing on the impact of these projects within Saskatchewan. This is a valuable resource to help students understand the systemic and ongoing impact of the child welfare system on Indigenous families, while also centring the consistent resistance and resilience of Indigenous communities in the face of modern representations of colonialism and injustice, through a focus on Indigenous kinship systems.

352 pp., 6 × 9", b&w photographs • Bibliography: yes • Index

Allyson D. Stevenson (Métis)

Source: Association of Book Publishers of BC - Canadian Indigenous Books for Schools (2021-2022)

Allyson D. Stevenson is an assistant professor in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Regina.

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• Short-listed, Rasmussen & Co. Indigenous Peoples’ Writing Award Saskatchewan Book Awards
• Short-listed, 2022 PROSE Award awarded by the American Association of Publishers
• Short-listed, Wilson Institute for Canadian History Book Award