Notes

It would take 24 days by foot or 28 Hours by car.

I think Cleo was adopted so far from home in order to maximize her assimilation. The Canadian government were trying their best to assimilate indigenous children and by moving them far from their families it would essentially destroyed their support web. If they have no support web they start losing hope and without hope they have no drive to resist assimilation and keep their own culture. So by moving her away they essentially isolated her from her support group to make it easier for her to assimilate.

I think her siblings were adopted into nearby communities because they were so much younger that it would be easier to assimilate them even near the children support group. Cleo was much older and as Walker said she was a serious child therefore she would probably resist assimilation and would be harder to simulate if she was near her siblings so she was sent far away.

It involves empty because it puts the social worker in the shoes of Christine. It makes the social worker look from the perspective of Christine of how it would feel like to have a sister that was murdered and you have no information about. It drive change because a social worker wants to help if she feels empathetic towards Christine and therefore Christina will be able to get information about her sister.

Up until now Christine's interactions with the social workers have been inefficient and neglectful. The workers failed to take Christine's case seriously maybe because they lack empathy or maybe they feel as if the case is too old and too hard to gather evidence for.

Systemic racism is racism that a government, Society, or organization has set in place to be seen as normal but is actually racist. It has affected Christine because the social workers he has been in contact with are dealing with files and a case that will had taken place during a time where systemic racism was rampant and normal. All evidence and files of Cleo would have been part of the systemic racist government, and the government's main goal was to assimilate the child and not give them a good home. This would have led the social workers during the time to not take any cases or Files about indigenous children seriously so detail and facts would have been left out making it harder for Christine to find out about Cleo.

Who: the government of Canada and Indigenous children

What: Canadian social workers forcefully taking children from indigenous families and putting them into white families

When: during the 1960's and 1970s

Where: all over Canada

Why: the Canadian government use the excuse of abusive families or family's that cannot provide for their children in order to take away and there's no children and put them in the white families and our to assimilate them towards Canadian culture

How: the Canadian government had laws 4 allowing them to take children at their own will and if any indigenous person was to disobey these laws there would be legal consequences so the family was left with no choice but to give up their children to social.