‘It Takes a Child to Raise a Village’ - The Tyee

Jessica Knutson is a survivor of the child services system and now a social worker. ‘Wherever Indigenous children and youth are,’ she told The Tyee, ‘[I would hope] that they’re able to be connected to their nation, to their land, to their culture, to their language.’ Photo courtesy of Jessica Knutson. Canada’s residential schools have divided Indigenous families for generations — the human rights abuses in those facilities divided families and contributed to intergenerational trauma and a vast overrepresentation of Indigenous children placed in the so-called child “welfare” system. Today, t…