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Aboriginal Child Welfare: Symbolic Battleground in the News Media

From: Aboriginal Canada Revisited

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Over the last three decades, dozens of First Nations have negotiated the devolution of delegated responsibility for child welfare, and many more are in the process of negotiating such agreements. A study conducted in 2004, found that daily newspapers in British Columbia report on Aboriginal management of child welfare services in ways that undermine their aspirations to design and deliver culturally appropriate services to their people. Control over child welfare may be seen as a symbolic battleground where the inherent right and ability of Aboriginal people to govern themselves and exercise control over their own lives is at stake. This article is based on selected findings of a major study on news coverage of Aboriginal child welfare issues that was supported by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Small Universities Grant administered by the University of the Fraser Valley (UFV).

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Robert Harding

Robert Harding moved to British Columbia from Quebec in 1997 to help a local university college and the St6:lo First Nation develop a social work program based on Aboriginal principles. He received his PhD from Simon. Fraser University with a dissertation on media discourse about Aboriginal self-governance issues. His latest publications include Historical Representations of Aboriginal People in the Canadian News Media in Discourse and Society and The Media, Aboriginal People and Common Sense in the Canadian Journal of Native Studies. Robert Harding also teaches social policy community development, and Aboriginal social work at the School of Social Work and Human Services at the University of the Fraser Valley in Abbotsford, British Columbia.