Intimate Integration
- Author Name: Allyson Stevenson
- Award Year: 2022
- Publisher: University of Toronto Press
- Publication Date: 2020
- ISBN: 9781487520458
- Author Website: https://artsandscience.usask.ca/profile/AStevenson#ResearchAreas
About the Book
Privileging Indigenous voices and experiences, Intimate Integration documents the rise and fall of North American transracial adoption projects, including the Adopt Indian and Métis Project and the Indian Adoption Project. Allyson D. Stevenson argues that the integration of adopted Indian and Métis children mirrored the new direction in post-war Indian policy and welfare services. She illustrates how the removal of Indigenous children from their families and communities took on increasing political and social urgency, contributing to what we now call the "Sixties Scoop." Making profound contributions to the history of settler colonialism in Canada, Intimate Integration sheds light on the complex reasons behind persistent social inequalities in child welfare.
About the Author
Allyson Stevenson is Métis scholar from Kinistino, SK. She is a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice at the University of Regina. She obtained her PhD in History from the University of Saskatchewan in 2015. From 2016-2017 she was the inaugural Aboriginal postdoctoral fellow at the University of Guelph where she worked on developing a historical analysis of Indigenous women’s political organizing in Saskatchewan during the 1970’s. In January 2018, she began a tenure-track position at the University of Regina in the department of Politics and International Studies. Her current research specializes in histories of Indigenous children and families, the Sixties Scoop, global Indigenous political movements, and settler-colonialism. She has recently published articles on Metis political activism, Indigenous women’s political organizations, and Indigenous girlhood on the Prairies in the mid-twentieth century. She was awarded a SSRCH Insight Development Grant for her project, “Born out of struggle, determination and hard work:” First Nation and Métis women’s Organizing for Indigenous Reproductive Justice in Twentieth-Century Saskatchewan, and the Arrell M. Gibson Prize for best essay on a Native American Topic, Western History Association in September 2016 for her article “The Adoption of Frances T: Blood, Belonging, and Aboriginal Transracial Adoption in Twentieth-Century Canada” in Canadian Journal of History, 2015.