Author abstract: “This paper argues that the resurgence of Indigenous peoples\u2019 citizenship orders can be informed in part by tenets of Indigenous customary adoption. The paper considers registration as an Indian under Canada\u2019s Indian Act as having conflated being \u201cIndian\u201d with a Eurocentric property-holder identity, which First Nations now internalize through band membership practices. As such, I argue that adoptees and customary adoption are seen as suspect because they challenge the blood- and property-based conceptions of what it means to be \u201cIndian.\u201d Anishinaabeg customary adoption is taken up here in an analytical approach to re-thinking how citizenship could be discerned in anti-colonial ways; specifically, I consider \u201ccaring for others\u201d and the concept of \u201ccontrolling our associations\u201d in developing an adoption-centric theory of Anishinaabeg citizenship.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Author abstract: “This paper argues that the resurgence of Indigenous peoples\u2019 citizenship orders can be informed in part by tenets of Indigenous customary adoption. The paper considers registration as an Indian under Canada\u2019s Indian Act as having conflated being \u201cIndian\u201d with a Eurocentric property-holder identity, which First Nations now internalize through band membership practices. As […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resource-library","tag-tribal-child-welfare-practice"],"yoast_head":"\n