Contents


Acknowledgments

Prologue

Introduction

1 The Bleeding Heart of Settler Colonialism

2 Adoptive Kinship and Belonging

3 Rehabilitating the “Subnormal [Métis] Family” in Saskatchewan

4 The Green Lake Children’s Shelter Experiment: From Institutionalization to Integration in Saskatchewan

5 Post-War Liberal Citizenship and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship

6 Child Welfare as System and Lived Experience

7 Saskatchewan’s Indigenous Resurgence and the Restoration of Indigenous Kinship and Caring

8 Confronting Cultural Genocide in the 1980s

Conclusion: Intimate Indigenization

Epilogue: Coming Home

Appendix: Road Allowance Communities in Saskatchewan

Notes

Bibliography

Index