{"id":2302,"date":"2021-10-14T16:00:58","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T20:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/?p=2302"},"modified":"2026-03-05T10:36:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T15:36:44","slug":"fpa-voices-acknowledging-social-works-difficult-history-with-indigenous-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/2021\/fpa-voices-acknowledging-social-works-difficult-history-with-indigenous-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"FPA Voices: Acknowledging Social Work&#8217;s Difficult History with Indigenous Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        FPA Voices: Acknowledging Social Work&#8217;s Difficult History with Indigenous Communities\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>&#8220;Growing up in a Anishinaabe Wiisaakode (Ojibwe Metis) community in the 1960\u2019s, Social Work Professor Patricia McGuire and her siblings knew exactly who the government-appointed social worker was and what happened when he came to their village&#8230;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Today, McGuire is herself a social worker and part of a group at Carleton\u2019s School of Social Work that is acknowledging the field\u2019s difficult history with residential schools, child welfare and education. This group of social workers is committed to decolonizing and reconciling social work\u2019s relationship(s) with Indigenous peoples in Canada\u2014beginning with its own program.&#8221; <em>(Excerpt from FPA Voices article by Karen Kelly)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the full story <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/fpa\/story\/acknowledging-social-works-difficult-history-with-indigenous-communities\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Growing up in a Anishinaabe Wiisaakode (Ojibwe Metis) community in the 1960\u2019s, Social Work Professor Patricia McGuire and her siblings knew exactly who the government-appointed social worker was and what happened when he came to their village&#8230; Today, McGuire is herself a social worker and part of a group at Carleton\u2019s School of Social Work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2303,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2307,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2302\/revisions\/2307"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socialwork\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}