Why?

Behind the statistics:

The story of 2 Indigenous children on the
brink of becoming court wards
Inquiry Questions
1. How do indigenous children become seized and become
court wards?
2. How might indigenous peoples perceive Canadian
Government officials?
3. Why might the adoption system be considered unjust?
4. What are the causes of a critical overrepresentation of
Indigenous children in child welfare systems across the
country?
5. How might these actions be seen as part of a
humanitarian crisis?
 Summary Vocabulary
Feb. 17, 2017, the father, the primary caregiver, was in Ottawa
YMCA shelter where he was living with his two infants in a Incarceration
small room.
the state of being confined in prison;
The father was preparing for another day of snow shoveling, he imprisonment.
said he saw a police officer and a woman with his children in her
arms.

Other family members were never notified and they were never
able to properly intervene.

Police arrived with a battering ram and pressed a Taser against

the mother.
"They physically took the baby out of my arms," said a family
member.
"They left me feeling helpless.”
The infants lives now rest in the hands of a judge.
Overrepresentation
represented excessively; especially :
having representatives in a proportion
higher than the average.
 1. How can we as a nation prevent
and stop the unfair and unjust
treatment of indigenous children in

Questions the adoption system?

2. What might be the Canadian
Governments reasonable answers

Extended... to the overrepresentation of

indigenous children in the adoption
system?
3. Is there other another classification
of people being mistreated in the
adoption system?
UNDRIP
1.
Article 10 Indigenous peoples shall not be forcibly removed from their lands or
territories.
These children are being forced from their homes and taken without consent or
reasoning. Adoption and rehoming is at times necessary, but the reasonings are
not adequate.
2.
Article 8 (c) Any form of forced population transfer which has the aim or effect of
violating or undermining any of their rights;
Indigenous children are being forced out and relocated based off the opinions
of government officials.
3.
Article 7 Indigenous peoples have the collective right to live in freedom, peace and
security
Indigenous peoples have no security if at any point officials might barge into the
privacy of their home to relocate and take away their children.
 Can Canada Be
Seen As A
NO Successful
Unfair Treatment
Example Of The
Inequality
Unjust Reasoning For Actions
Fulfillment Of
The UNDRIP?
 Statistics
Factors: poverty,
intergenerational In 2013, there
trauma and access were an
to housing estimated 62,428
children in out-of-
home care across
Canada

First Nation, Inuit In Manitoba

and Métis make up alone there
52.2% of children in are 10,000
foster care children in
care
Bibliography

http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/ottawa-indigenous-
child-foster-care-1.4502217

http://cwrp.ca/statistics

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/DRIPS_en.
pdf