Quebec's Indigenous communities can now set up their own family support organization. In Canada, nearly half of children placed in foster families are Indigenous.
Thirty-eight percent of Indigenous children live in poverty, compared to 7% of other children. Added to all this is the trauma linked to the forced schooling of children in residential schools for more than a century. The distress of young indigenous people is chilling and has multiple causes, says Pascale Guéricolas, a correspondent in Quebec.