Abstract
This chapter explores the themes of Indigenous child welfare and settler colonialism in Canada. It puts forth the argument that the Canadian child welfare system reproduces deeply colonial relations. Indigenous child removal, it suggests, functions as a central modality of power that furthers the settler colonial project. By continuing the practice of Indigenous child removal, the Canadian child welfare system sustains the settler society’s annihilative and accumulative impulses. Enacted through Indian Residential Schools in the past and the child welfare system in the present, the taking of Indigenous children by colonial authorities continues to be an integral part in how settler colonialism is normalized and reproduced in Canada.
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