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“The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $30 billion to compensate Indigenous children who were taken away from their families and put into the child welfare system.”

https://www.npr.org/2022/01/05/1070471306/canada-reaches-a-historic-deal-to-compensate-indigenous-children

Good companion read with many of the articles published in our first 2018 issue.

Canada reaches a historic deal to compensate Indigenous children The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $30 billion to compensate Indigenous children who were taken away from their families and put into the child welfare system.

"In Search of Other Mother's Gardens: On Creative Kinships"
By Lisa Marie Brimmer
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 7, Issue 2, 2019
pp. 280-289
In Alice Walker's essay In Search of Our Mother's Gardens the womanist writer observes creativity's potential to repair the past. By exploring the pluralized impact of adoption and settler colonial nationalism on Black sociality, this essay exposes the creative kinships of Walker, Zora Neale Hurston, Heidi Durrow, and Nella Larsen.
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https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2019.0022
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"White U***d Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada by Valerie J. Andrews (review)"
By Liz DeBetta
Adoption & Culture
The Ohio State University Press
Volume 9, Issue 2, 2021
pp. 347-351
"This review addresses Valerie Andrews's book White U***d Mother: The Adoption Mandate in Postwar Canada. Andrews' account is both historical and scholarly and makes an important contribution to the field of critical adoption studies. This work offers readers insight into the social, legal, and historical precedents set in Canada in the years following World War Two that established modern practices and created a system of violence toward women. The book is an exploration of the way that adoption and should be linked in the about adoption and serves as a call to action for those who research and study adoption as a cultural phenomenon. This review evaluates the author's approach and her contribution to the field of adoption studies."
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https://doi.org/10.1353/ado.2021.0017
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