Pandemics and Urban Child Survival

This article tells an intergenerational narrative about how historical pandemics and family adoptions stories can influence urban Indigenous custom adoption practices, policies, teaching and research. It uses the seven principles of Archibald’s (2008) storywork to link the importance of knowing our own family histories, and how those historical, cultural and current contexts can be a force to advocate, influence, research and teach for change. The “canoe” is a metaphor for re-conceptualizing adoption narratives, and emphasizes the idea of an “adoption journey” or a shared learning process

Art · Indigenous · Literature · Metaphor · Narrative · Pandemic · Sociology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Community Health and Development · Gender Studies · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Medicine

• Indigenous Storywork

  Jo-Ann Archibald, Qʼum Qʼum Xiiem et al.•Indigenous Storywork•2008

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• Influenza

  Open Access•Jeffery K Taubenberger, David M Morens•Emerging infectious diseases•2006

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• Clearing the Plains

  James Daschuk•Clearing the Plains•2013

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• Administering Colonial Science

  Ian Mosby•Histoire sociale•2013

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