Indigenous Human Rights

An episode from the back catalogue! We talk with Dr. Cindy Blackstock, a member of the Gitxsan First Nation, the Executive Director of the First Nations Child and Family Caring Society, and a professor at McGill University’s School of Social Work. She will spotlight the CHRT decision First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada et al. v. Attorney General of Canada (for the Minister of Indian and Northern Affairs Canada), where First Nations children and families received $23.34 billion in settlement funds for the denial of equal family and child services. Dr. Blackstock discusses her experience working on this case alongside the children that were impacted, the access to justice issues that arose, the systematic discrimination that laid the groundwork for this decision, and the future of Indigenous child welfare.

Discussed: Indigenous child welfare, systemic discrimination, access to justice, human rights

Music: Ross Bugden, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org//licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.