Dr. Allyson Stevenson
Dr. Allyson Stevenson (PhD), a Saskatchewan Métis scholar, comes to this position with impressive research accomplishments. Previously the Tier II Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples and Global Social Justice (University of Regina), she in an interdisciplinary scholar committed to community engaged research. She is a past recipient of the GDI Graduate Student Bursary, and completed her Bachelors, Master of Arts, and PhD in the University of Saskatchewan’s Department of History. Professor Stevenson’s previous work highlighted the emergence of Indigenous child welfare and the subsequent decolonial efforts of Saskatchewan Indigenous organizations to reclaim family caring and kinship in her book Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship published in 2020 by University of Toronto Press. She is an adoptee raised in Regina with kinship connections to Kinistino, SK. Additionally, she has worked on the Métis Advisory Committee of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.
She is currently completing her work on Indigenous women’s political organizing in Saskatchewan, a project funded by a SSHRC Insight Development Grant while undertaking a new research direction. Informed by her engagement with Indigenous women’s historical experiences and Métis history in the twentieth century, she will begin a research project that seeks to understand the significance of water to Métis culture. Please stay tuned to learn more about this exciting new research direction.
Publications
Books
- Intimate Integration: The Sixties Scoop and the Colonization of Indigenous Kinship,
Articles: Refereed Journals
- “The Adoption of Frances T: Blood, Belonging, and Aboriginal Transracial Adoption in Twentieth-Century Canada” in Canadian Journal of History, Vol. 50 NO 3 (2015): WINTER.
- “Vibrations Across a Continent: The 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, and the politicization of First Nations leaders in Saskatchewan” in American Indian Quarterly, 37: 1- 2 (2013).
- “As Men of Their Own Blood”: Métis Participation in the Western Numbered Treaties", Native Studies Review, 18 Issue 1, 2009, p67.
- “William McKay” in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Volume WVI (1931-1940) biography.ca/en/bio/mckay_william_16E.html
Articles: Edited Collection
- “Demanding the Right to Care for Their Children” in Eds Yvonne Boyer and Larry Chartrand, Métis Rising: Métis Perspectives on the Past, Our relations with Others, and Ourselves, 2, Vancouver: Purich Press, 2021.
- with Cheryl Troupe, "From Kitchen Tables to Formal Organization: Indigenous Women's Social and Political Activism in Saskatchewan to 1980” in eds, Sarah Carter and Nanci Langford, The History of Women’s Political and Social Activism in the Canadian West, Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2020.
- “Karen B., and Indigenous Girlhood on the Prairies: Disrupting the Images of Indigenous Children in Adoption Advertising in North America,” eds. Kristine Moruzi, Nell Musgrove and Carla Pascoe Leahy, Children’s Voices from the Past: New Historical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood, Cham: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2019.
- “Ambassadors Between the East and the West”: The Métis and the Numbered Treaties, 1871-1877” inIntersecting Worlds: Rural and Urban Aboriginal Issues, St. John's College Press, 2004.
Grants
Province of Saskatchewan, Ministry of Government Relations: First Nations and Métis Relations Unit, First Nations and Métis Community Engagements Projects Fund, December 31, 2018.
Project: Indigenous Storytelling Lab
Award: $15,000
SSRCH Insight Development Grant June 1, 2017-present.
“Born out of struggle, determination and hard work:” First Nation and Métis women’s Organizing for Indigenous Reproductive Justice in Twentieth-Century Saskatchewan.”
Grant Holder: Allyson Stevenson
Award: $20,140
SSHRC Insight Grant Status: Awarded
“A genealogy of Indigenous Child Welfare in Canada: A multi faceted examination of events in the removal of Indigenous children with a concentration on child welfare policy shifts between 1950 and 1985” Principal Investigator: Dr. Raven Sinclair
Award: $400,000/4 years Role: Co-Applicant
Contact
Contact
Room 129 Kirk Hall
Department of Indigenous Studies
University of Saskatchewan