Pandemics and Urban Child Survival: Pulling Together in the Adoption Canoe

Abstract

This article discusses an intergenerational narrative about how historical pandemics, starvation politics, and poverty contribute to implications for urban Indigenous custom adoption practice, policy, teaching and research. It uses the seven principles of Archibald’s (2008) storywork to demonstrate the importance of knowing our own family histories, and how those historical, cultural and current contexts can be a force to advocate, influence and teach for change.