First Peoples Child & Family Review: Volume 3, Number 1

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Table of Contents, Volume 3, Number 1, 2007

4 Foreword Michael Hart

5 Ensuring Knowledge Transmission in the Aboriginal Child Welfare Field
Marlyn Bennett

10 Keeping First Nations children at home: A few Federal policy changes could make a big difference
Fred Wien, Cindy Blackstock, John Loxley and Nico Trocmé

15 The politics of kith and kin: Observations on the British Columbia government’s reaction to the death of Sherry Charlie
Gerald Cradock

34 Reflections of a Mi’kmaq social worker on a quarter of a century work in First Nations child welfare
Nancy MacDonald and Judy MacDonald

46 Promising practice for maintaining identities in First Nation adoption
Jeannine Carriere

65 Identity lost and found: Lessons from the sixties scoop Raven Sinclair

83 Indigenous knowledge and research: The míkiwáhp as a symbol for reclaiming our knowledge and ways of knowing
Michael Hart

91 A way of life: Indigenous perspectives on anti oppressive living
Robina Thomas and Jacquie Green

105 Here be dragons! Reconciling Indigenous and Western knowledge to improve Aboriginal child welfare
Jean Lafrance and Betty Bastien

127 Are rural American Indian adolescents becoming a race of angels?
John Courname

133 (A Literature Review) Re-examining issues behind the loss of family and cultural and the impact on Aboriginal youth suicide rates
Kristine Morris

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