Ohpikin�wasowin/growing a child: implementing indigenous ways of knowing with indigenous families - Leona Makokis

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• Western theory and practice are over-represented in child welfare services for Indigenous peoples, not the other way around.
• Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and systems of child welfare in Canada.
• By understanding the problem as the prevalence of the Western universe in child welfare services rather than Indigenous peoples, efforts to understand and support Indigenous children and families are fundamentally transformed.
• Child welfare for Indigenous peoples must be informed and guided by Indigenous practices and understandings.
• Privileging the iyiniw (First people, people of the land) universe leads to reinvigorating traditional knowledges, practices and ceremonies related to children and families that have existed for centuries.
• The chapters of ohpikin wasowin/Growing a Child describe wisdom-seeking journeys and service-provision changes that occurred in Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory on Turtle Island.
• Many of the teachings are nehiyaw (Cree) and some are from the Blackfoot people.
• Taken together, this collection forms a whole related to the Turtle Lodge Teachings, which expresses nehiyaw stages of development, and works to undo the colonial trappings of Canada's current child welfare system.