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Sixties Scoop

Who Led the Change

Citations

How it benefited the Government

What it is the Sixties Scoop?

  • Aboriginal Secwepemc leader Wayne Christian helped draw attention
  • 1993 the Canadian council commissioned Patrick Johnston to take charge for the comprehensive statistical overview of Aboriginal Child Welfare
  • IN 1985, Justin Edwin Kimelman released "The Kimleman Report "
  • Cultural genocide has taken place
  • It's when the government decided to take Aboriginal children of Canada from their families
  • They were then placed into foster care or adoption
  • 200,000 Aboriginal children were forced to be adopted by middle-class families
  • The government believed at the time, Aboriginal children could receive a better education
  • They thought proper care was based on middle-class Euro Canadian values
  • They thought they were protecting the children
  • Public school system
  • Clair, Annie Margaret. "Family Secrets after the Sixties Scoop." The Coast. News, 19 Feb. 2015. Web. 3 Feb. 2017.
  • Hanson, Erin. "Sixties Scoop." Sixties Scoop. University of British Columbia, 2009. Web. 07 Feb. 2017.
  • Apihtawikosism. "The Stolen Generation(s)." âpihtawikosisân. Wordpress, 12 Mar. 2015. Web. 14 Feb. 2017.
  • Cbcnews. "The Sixties Scoop Explained." YouTube. YouTube, 29 Sept. 2016. Web. 14 Feb. 2017.

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End

Began

Steps to Ending it

Effect/Negatives

How it Started

  • Began in 1960-1980's
  • Implemented by the government and various churches
  • Almost all newly born children
  • First through residential schools then child protection system
  • The social workers had no training in dealing with Aboriginal children
  • Parents had no warning and no consent
  • Physical and sexual abuse was not uncommon, but it was really covered up
  • Children growing up in these conditions experience psychological and emotional problems
  • Many of these problems came upon later in life
  • In 1990, Indian and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC) created the First Nations Child and Family Services program (FNCFS)
  • The sixties scoop ended in the 1980s after the Ontario chiefs passed the resolution against Manitoba judicial inquiry harshly demanded it to happen
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