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First Peoples Child & Family Review 
Volume 3 Number 1 - January 2007

"The latest issue of First Peoples Child & Family Review is now available online. We encourage you to check out our latest articles, as well as our offerings from past issues. If you are interested in contributing to the First Peoples journal, as an author or as a reviewer, information can be found on our website or by contacting the coordinating editor at mbennett@fncfcs.com.. The deadline for the next call for papers is March 31st, 2007."

Excerpts from the Table of Contents of the January 2007 issue:

• Ensuring Knowledge Transmission in the Aboriginal Child Welfare Field
• Keeping First Nations children at home: A few Federal policy changes could make a big difference
• The politics of kith and kin: Observations on the British Columbia government's reaction to the death of Sherry Charlie
• Reflections of a Mi’kmaq social worker on a quarter of a century work in First Nations child welfare
• Promising practice for maintaining identities in First Nation adoption
• Identity lost and found: Lessons from the sixties scoop

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Table of Contents, Volume 3, Number 1, 2007

4	Foreword Michael Hart
5	Ensuring Knowledge Transmission in the Aboriginal Child Welfare Field Marlyn Bennett
10	Keeping First Nations children at home: A few Federal policy changes could make a big difference Fred Wien, Cindy Blackstock, John Loxley and Nico Trocmé
15	The politics of kith and kin: Observations on the British Columbia government's reaction to the death of Sherry Charlie Gerald Cradock
34	Reflections of a Mi’kmaq social worker on a quarter of a century work in First Nations child welfare Nancy MacDonald and Judy MacDonald
46	Promising practice for maintaining identities in First Nation adoption Jeannine Carriere
65	Identity lost and found: Lessons from the sixties scoop Raven Sinclair
83	Indigenous knowledge and research: The míkiwáhp as a symbol for reclaiming our knowledge and ways of knowing Michael Hart
91	A way of life: Indigenous perspectives on anti oppressive living Robina Thomas and Jacquie Green
105	Here be dragons! Reconciling Indigenous and Western knowledge to improve Aboriginal child welfare Jean Lafrance and Betty Bastien
127	Are rural American Indian adolescents becoming a race of angels? John Courname
133	(A Literature Review) Re-examining issues behind the loss of family and cultural and the impact on Aboriginal youth suicide rates Kristine Morris