This course will explore the history of child welfare from an Indigenous perspective and discuss past and current practices and policies. The course will emphasize the current trends in child welfare as set out by both the federal and provincial governments. Current programs in Indigenous communities will be reviewed discussing the movement toward healing from past practices and to strive toward Indigenous control of child welfare practice for children, families and communities. We will begin to address our own values and ethics in light of these changing Canadian paradigms, in order to focus on advocacy work that assists children and families with their rights under legislation.