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Weechi-it-te-win Family Services
Weechi-it-te-win Family Services〔Weechi-it-te-win (from ''wiiji'idiwin'' in the Anishinaabe or Ojibwe language) means "looking after each other".〕 is a family services agency focused on the needs of Anishinaabe families in ten communities in the southern part of the traditional territory of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3 in Canada.〔Weechi-it-te-win provides aboriginal child protection services in part of this territory that now falls within the Province of Ontario.〕 It provides bicultural aboriginal and mainstream child protection and prevention services based upon cultural competence. Weechi-it-te-win "is an example of First Nations communities reclaiming jurisdiction for their children and safeguarding a cultural heritage shaken by the impacts of colonization, the legacy of the residential schools and intervention by the mainstream child welfare system."〔Peter Ferris, Estelle Simard, George Simard, & Jacqueline Ramdatt, "Promising Practices in First Nations Child Welfare Management and Governance," September, 2005, http://www.fncfcs.com/docs/WFSPromisingPractices.pdf; accessed 5 October 2008.〕 Weechi-te-win is a national child protection agency of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3.〔Anishinaabe Abinoojii Family Services is also a national child protection agency of the Anishinaabe Nation in Treaty #3, providing bicultural services to five communities in the north-west area of Treaty 3 territory; http://www.aafs.ca/homen.htm, accessed 8 September 2008.〕 The defining difference between Weechi-it-te-win and mainstream services is its focus on customary care. Its website says: "Weechi-it-te-win was founded as an Indian Alternative and we continue to envision the revitalizing of an Anishinaabe child care system that is rooted in the customs, traditions and values of the Anishinaabe people."〔http://www.weechi.ca/index.php; accessed 5 October 2008.〕
== Children and cultural survival ==
Like other agencies for aboriginal child protection world-wide, Weechi-it-te-win is focused on the protection of children within a modern aboriginal and also bi-cultural context. "The mission of Weechi-it-te-win is to preserve Indian (Anishinaabe) culture and identity among our people; to strengthen and maintain Indian (Anishinaabe) families and through them our communities; and to assure the growth, support and development of all children within our families and communities."〔See http://www.weechi.ca/index.php; accessed 5 October 2008.〕 This mission must be understood in the context of a history of both the systemic use of aboriginal child protection for genocidal purposes and the participation of Anishinaabe communities in mainstream society in Canada.〔In 2008, the government of Canada acknowledged and apologized for a major element of this systemic problem; Hansard, Wednesday, 11 June 2008, Stephen Harper, "Apology to Former Students of Indian Residential Schools", http://www2.parl.gc.ca/HousePublications/Publication.aspx?DocId=3568890&Language=E&Mode=1&Parl=39&Ses=2; accessed 5 October 2008.〕 Denying a people the right to raise its own children is a method for culturally extinguishing it.〔 Such actions are now illegal: "In the second half of the twentieth century, removing children from their parents in order to change a people and a culture came to be recognized as an act of oppression, formally considered by the United Nations to be a form of genocide." Andrew Armitage, ''Comparing the Policy of Aboriginal Assimilation: Australia, Canada and New Zealand'', UBC Press, Vancouver (1995), p. 6.〕
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