Somewhat technical look at the policies of Indigenous child removal in Saskatchewan in the 1950s through 1980s. A lot of the book focuses on how the paternalistic provincial social work policies and the federal Indian Act with its drive towards cultural genocide combined to make the situation worse than either measure would've individually. I also learned a lot of things about Tommy Douglas and the CCP that aren't in popular histories of the topic.

Probably the most interesting thing to me, and the author emphasised this several times, was how small the number of trans-racial adoptions were (though of course too high, white families adopting First Nations and Metis children only made up about ten percent of cases of apprehended children, the rest ending up in foster care). The popularity of stories like Little Bird and Unsettled had made me think that the majority of cases had ended with children completely cut off from their culture and families. I also hadn't heard about how early the organised political objection to all this had started. There were Indigenous women's groups starting in the late 1960s, and a proto-AFN pushing back pretty hard as well. I'd like to see more of that in media depictions of this topic, as so often the stories are about individuals alone against the system. Of course, despite all of this, there are more Indigenous kids in the system than ever.