Genocide, Child Welfare, and the Way Ahead

Join us October 24th, when writer, advocate, and activist jaye simpson will discuss their experience as survivor of the child welfare system and their solutions to this destructive system. Tamara Starblanket, author of Suffer the Little Children, Genocide, Indigenous Nations, and the Canadian State (https://www.claritypress.com/Starblanket.html), will conclude with a discussion of the forcible removal of Indigenous Peoples’ children as a crime of genocide. She will demonstrate that the residential school and the child welfare system are criminal and suggest ways to move forward through self-determination.

jaye simpson is an Oji-Cree Two Spirit, former youth in care who uses their perspective to speak to the complexities of intersectional identities in the foster care system.

Tamara Starblanket is Spider Woman, a Nehiyaw iskwew (Cree woman) from Ahtahkakoop First Nation in Treaty Six Territory. She holds an LLM from the University of Saskatchewan, and an LLB from the University of British Columbia, is the Co-Chair of the North American Indigenous Peoples’ Caucus, and presently coordinates and teaches in the criminology program at Native Education College in Vancouver, BC.