Rocha Beardall Study Theorizes a “Third Space” of Indian Child Welfare
Posted: 6/5/2025 ()
The United States has a long history of genocide against Native Peoples which is still felt today. One critical aspect of this violence is the forced removal of Native children to federal Indian boarding schools and the use of assimilationist land policies to fracture essential Indigenous kinship networks. In a recent article published in Genealogy, CSDE Affiliate Theresa Rocha Beardall (Sociology) critiques the colonial apparatus of contemporary state child welfare institutions and conceptualizes a “Third Space” in an effort to prevent the continued obscuring of Indigenous governance in the effort to build collective futures. Read the full article here.