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.
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