6 Case Study: The Saskatchewan Native Women’s Movement and Day Cares in Kisiskâciwan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Abbreviations xix
6. Indigenous Place Names xxi
7. Introduction: “Doing What Needed to Be Done”: Indigenous Women’s Responsibilities and Leadership 1
8. PART I Organizing across the West
9. Introduction 29
10. 1 “To Take an Active Role”1: Indigenous Women’s Early Mobilizing 31
11. 2 “Our Banners Were up Big Time”1: Indigenous Women’s Provincial Organizing 62
12. PART II Organizing across Boundaries
13. Introduction 117
14. 3 Creating a National Movement 119
15. 4 “Our Shared Struggles”: Indigenous Women’s Rights and Transracial Coalition-Building during International Women’s Year, 1975 143
16. PART III Concerning Children’s Care: Childcare Activism
17. Introduction 165
18. 5 “A Crying Need for a Day Care Centre”: Indigenous-Run Day Cares, 1967–1985 167
19. 6 Case Study: The Saskatchewan Native Women’s Movement and Day Cares in Kisiskâciwan 196
20. 7 “The Crying Need for Indian Foster Homes”1: Indigenous Women Challenge State Child Welfare Practices 221
21. 8 Case Study: The VANWS Foster Care Project and the Splatsín te Secwépemc By-Law for the Care of Our Indian Children 250
22. PART IV Indigenous Women Respond to Crisis
23. Introduction 283
24. 9 “It’s Something We’ve Just Got to Begin to Do Ourselves”: Beginning the Indigenous Women’s Shelter Movement in Kanata’s West 285
25. 10 Case Study: “They Were So against Us”: The Saskatchewan Native Women’s Movement and Battered Women’s Shelters 326
26. 11 Coming Home: Creating Halfway Houses for Indigenous Women 350
27. Conclusion: Caring for Community: Indigenous Women’s Impact 386
28. Appendix 1: Biographical Information 393
29. Appendix 2: Resource and Support Centres, 1973–1979 411
30. Appendix 3: Homemakers’ Clubs in Kanata’s West 413
31. Notes 417
32. Bibliography 531
33. Index 553