“…Internationally, quality Indigenous early childhood programmes are increasingly viewed as critical sites for individual and collective healing, cultural and language revitalisation, and community rebuilding (Greenwood & Jones, ; Guilfoyle et al., ). However, in many settler‐colonial societies, there is a context of mistrust that has been shaped by Indigenous families' experiences of government‐sanctioned over‐surveillance and intervention, and Indigenous women's experiences of systemic racism and discrimination, such that many Indigenous caregivers are hesitant about engaging in early childhood programmes (Grace & Trudgett, , Health Council of Canada, ; Kaomea, ).…”