geginamasigloqowejg:onpoli: The way that the child welfare system has harmed Indigenous kids and fam
geginamasigloqowejg:onpoli: The way that the child welfare system has harmed Indigenous kids and families following the closure of residential schools is finally being discussed in-depth in the mainstream - the excerpt above is from a Global News article, I highly recommend that people read it.With Pride-related pinkwashing and pandering also kicking into gear, we should also remember 15-year-old Kanina Sue Turtle and 12-year-old Jolynn Winter, both foster kids who died by suicide in northern Ontario in 2016 and 2017 respectively. They had been in a relationship before being separated by foster home staff due to their age difference. Instead of being provided with support and guidance by the people who were supposed to care for her, Kanina was told she could face criminal charges because of their relationship. The day she died, she was left unmonitored despite the known risk of suicide.Complete liberation was the original goal of Pride events and should still be the goal. Celebrations of progress can’t obscure the fact that systemic racism prevents some of our neighbours from enjoying the same freedoms we enjoy. [image text: ‘It doesn’t leave a person’: Residential schools aren’t ‘history’ for many, advocates say.Foster care in Canada: a new Residential School?“it’s this concept of removal and institutionalization that has continued. It’s just got a different name on it,” said Pam Palmater, a Mi'kmaq lawyer, professor and activist.Over half of the children in foster care are Indigenous, according to figures from the federal government. That’s despite Indigenous people making up just over seven percent of the under-14 population in Canada.The conditions that cause so many Indigenous kids to land in the child welfare system are “related to the intractable legacies of residential schools including poverty, addictions, and domestic and sexual violence,” according to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission report.“Canadian children are far more likely to be apprehended and put into foster care for reasons of physical and sexual abuse than Indigenous children,” Palmater said./end id] -- source link
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