THE SIXTIES SCOOP: DECOLONIZING PRACTICES, THE STATE AND INDIGENOUS GRASSROOTS ORGANIZING
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Stirrett, Natasha
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eng
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Sixties Scoop , Indigenous Peoples , Social Movements , Grassroots
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The Sixties Scoop displaced thousands of Indigenous children and resulted in their removal from their communities of origin, families, and kinship relations. In my dissertation, I examine the Sixties Scoop, Indigenous-state relations, and grassroots community organizing. As part of the data collection process, I conducted qualitative interviews with Sixties Scoop Survivors, Indigenous community organizers and advocates. Ethnographic examples additionally complemented these interviews from my activist and organizing experiences. The four central claims of my dissertation are the following: First, the experiential colonial convergence, including the Sixties Scoop, brought great harm upon the lives of Indigenous People and produced complex social problems that Indigenous survivors, advocates and community organizers have worked to counter and abate across different spaces and locales on Turtle Island; second, Indigenous People have employed the moccasin telegraph to pass along messages and to generate awareness of the Scoop and also to build networks and grassroots organizing responses; third, enduring Indigenous frameworks and practices sustain and affirm ongoing Indigenous connections to their homelands and offer us models for decolonial and generative alternatives to state solutions; and finally, Indigenous People both engage with state recognition approaches and disavow the ability of these processes to transform the relationship between Indigenous People and the settler-colonial state. As an activist involved in community-building, and as the daughter of a Sixties Scoop Survivor, I explore my own links to Indigenous resurgence and the pathways that Indigenous People are taking up to navigate a colonial legacy and a variety of complex and dynamic decolonizing practices.
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