%0 Journal Article
%T How did adoption become a dirty word? Indigenous citizenship orders as Irreconcilable Spaces of Aboriginality
%A Kahente Horn-Miller
%J AlterNative: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples
%@ 1174-1740
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/1177180118802861
%X In the fall of 2016, the Kahnaw¨¤:ke Community Decision Making Process revised the Kahnaw¨¤:ke Law on Membership regarding adoption. It was decided that any non-Indigenous child adopted by a Kahnaw¨¤:ke family after 2003 would not be recognized as a Kanien¡¯keh¨¢:ka of Kahnaw¨¤:ke or an approved resident. Parents were committing an offense in adopting non-Indigenous children and would no longer be eligible to reside in Kahnaw¨¤:ke. This decision drew national and international attention, with some questioning the logic of targeting a practice so integral to many Indigenous legal orders. This article frames Rotinonhsi¨®nni adoption, belonging, and identity formation beyond the confines of colonial thought. This might seem like a tall order given colonialism¡¯s all-encompassing grasp on Indigenous minds and communities; indeed, we are all entangled in the colonial order. But there is a way to challenge this by moving beyond frameworks reliant on colonial control
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%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1177180118802861