Title slide "Social Work’s Harmful Legacy" stating that 20th-century Euro-centric values caused profound harm to Indigenous communities.
Text slide "Poverty Weaponized" explaining how early social workers blamed Indigenous parents for state-created systemic poverty.
Text slide "Complicity in Residential Schools" detailing how social workers facilitated the removal of Indigenous children to abusive institutions.
Text slide "The Sixties Scoop" defining the era between the 1960s and 1980s when thousands of Indigenous children were apprehended.
Part 2 examines the profound harm early social work caused Indigenous communities in Canada. From weaponizing poverty to complicity in Residential Schools and the Sixties Scoop, the history is heavy but necessary to face. 🧵 1/3
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