TY - BOOK AU - Makokis,Leona AU - Bodor,Ralph AU - Calhoun,Avery AU - Tyler,Stephanie AU - Dion,Amber TI - ohpikinâwasowin: growing a child : implementing Indigenous ways of knowing with Indigenous families SN - 1773632272 PY - 2020///] CY - Halifax, Winnipeg PB - Fernwood Publishing KW - Children KW - Canada KW - Care KW - Services for KW - Child care KW - Parent and child KW - Metis peoples KW - Family relationships KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction: Entering the Circle / Leona Makokis, Ralph Bodor, Avery Calhoun and Stephanie Tyler -- iyiniw tâpwêwin êkwa kiskeyihtamowin / Leona Makokis, Ralph Bodor, Stephanie Tyler, Amanda McLellan, Ariel Veldhuisen, Kristina Kopp, Suzanne McLeod and Sharon Goulet -- miyawâta : Family Teachings on Turtle Island / Carolyn Barker -- kayiwastisi : Indigenous Program Indicators / Carol Turner and Ralph Bodor -- ayahpatisi : Practice as Ceremony / Amber Dion, Stephanie Tyler, Christie Pace and Karen Delver -- tâpwêwin : Foundations of wîcihtâsowin / Angie Pinder and Avery Calhoun -- kîseyitamowin : miyo ohpikinâwasowin : Igniting Spritual Fires / Kristina Kopp, Caleb Anacker, Angie Pinder and Bonda Thompson -- ayawâwasowin : pe kîwe Come Home : Indigenous Adoptee Re-Connection with Self, Family and Community / Fran Kuefler Josey and Judy McRee -- kakehtawewin : Bringing Ceremony Home : An Inaugural kiskinohamâkewin / Stephanie Tyler and Avery Calhoun -- Conclusion: Closing the Circle : wesakechahk and the Origin of Butterflies; Issued also in electronic formats N2 - "Western theory and practice are over-represented in child welfare services for Indigenous peoples, not the other way around. Contributors to this collection invert the long-held, colonial relationship between Indigenous peoples and systems of child welfare in Canada. By understanding the problem as the prevalence of the Western universe in child welfare services rather than Indigenous peoples, efforts to understand and support Indigenous children and families are fundamentally transformed. Child welfare for Indigenous peoples must be informed and guided by Indigenous practices and understandings. Privileging the iyiniw (First people, people of the land) universe leads to reinvigorating traditional knowledges, practices and ceremonies related to children and families that have existed for centuries. The chapters of ohpikinâwasowin/Growing a Child describe wisdom-seeking journeys and service-provision changes that occurred in Treaty 6, Treaty 7, and Treaty 8 territory on Turtle Island. Many of the teachings are nehiyaw (Cree) and some are from the Blackfoot people. Taken together, this collection forms a whole related to the Turtle Lodge Teachings, which expresses nehiyaw stages of development, and works to undo the colonial trappings of Canada's current child welfare system."-- ER -