Child Welfare
A legal requirement that claims to ensure access to supports and services for First Nations children was named after this Cree boy.
Who is Jordan River Anderson?
This period in time saw social workers removing Indigenous children from their families and into foster care en masse.
What is the Sixties Scoop?
A legal right allowing a defendant to be tried by people from their communities.
What is the Right to Jury of Your Peers?
This UBC professor teaches the SOWK 325 class.
Who is Jax Nobiss?
People who are the descendants of First Nations women and European men.
Who are the Métis?
The last Canadian residential school, Kivalliq Hall in Rankin Inlet, was shut down in this year.
What is 1997?
Canadian social workers took over for this position, which was responsible for overseeing government policies on reserves.
What are Indian Agents?
This important piece of legislation has three main areas: Indian Status, First Nations governance, management of reserve land.
What is the Indian Act?
Orange Shirt Day was recognized in recognition of her experiences in residential school.
Who is Phyllis Webstad?
Along with the Metis, people from this nation are not recognized under the Indian Act.
Who are the Inuit?
This body of water that stretches between Winnipeg and Minnesota is known for its connection to hundreds of MMIWG, including Tina Fontaine.
What is the Red River?
This practice involves the apprehension of newborns from their parents without consent if their living conditions are deemed “unsafe” or “inadequate” by social workers.
What are Birth Alerts?
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission has this many Calls to Action.
What is 94?
An influential political leader of the Métis, this politician led two resistance movements against the government and PM John A. Macdonald.
Who is Louis Riel?
This nation’s beliefs were the foundation for Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.
Who are the Blackfoot?
This piece of legislature affirms and recognizes Indigenous governments’ jurisdiction over child and family services.
What is the Bill C-92: an Act respecting First Nations, Inuit and Métis children, youth and families?
In 2021, Indigenous children accounted for this percentage of all children in Canadian foster care (according to the Assembly of First Nations).
What is 42.5%?
Indigenous witnesses testifying in Alberta courts can swear on this sacred item instead of a Bible.
What is an eagle feather?
The late Honourable Calvin Murray Sinclair was the chairman for this Commission from 2009-2015.
What is the Indian Residential Schools Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
The teal and white flag depicting a salmon overtop an arrowhead is the flag belonging to this nation.
Who are the Musqueam?
This AFN policy’s framework aims for First Nations children to have an education that incorporates their culture and language.
What is the First Nations Early Learning and Child Care (ELCC)?
This model was introduced in 2003 with the intention of addressing cultural needs of Indigenous people in correctional programs.
What is the Contiuum of Care model?
The Canadian Government implemented this human rights instrument in 2019, which includes the protection of Indigenous children’s rights.
What is the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP)?
During the war of 1812, this Shawnee chief and warrior helped prevent the invasion of the USA into Canadian territory.
Who is Chief Tecumseh?
On July 23rd, 1923, sixteen villages came together to form this nation, now known as Amalgamation Day.
Who are the Squamish?