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From the 1960s to the ’80s, some 20,000 Aboriginal children were removed from their homes and placed with non-Native families. Now adults, many want redress for the loss of cultural identity. By Anne Bokma Sally Susan Mathias was four years old in 1967 when child welfare services removed her and her six-year-old sister, Doris Lynn, from their home, part of …
Conference in Winnipeg focuses on needs of First Nations children A national advocate for First Nations children wants Manitoba to come clean on what it’s doing with federal child tax credits when kids in the province are put into care. “We’re talking millions and millions of dollars… I don’t know what the exact amount is in Manitoba,” Cindy Blackstock, the …
Experts say exact numbers of aboriginal children adopted by Quebec families unclear By Ainslie MacLellan For decades, thousands of aboriginal children were taken from their parents, often without their consent or even their knowledge, and grew up never knowing their own culture. But a lot of Canadians don’t know it. “My parents who adopted me had no idea I was stolen,” said Nina …
Victim of ’60s Scoop’ shares his experience reuniting with Saskatchewan family The Merchant Law Group served the Federal Government the class-action lawsuit on January 30. From the 1960s to the 1980s, the government ran an Adopt Indian Métis program. That program saw thousands of aboriginal children taken from their homes and adopted into white families in Canada and the United States. …
Aboriginal grandmothers(link is external) have protested to Australian politicians about the increasing removal of Aboriginal children from their families to be placed in homes or with foster families, many of them non-Indigenous. Grandmothers were among about 100 Indigenous protesters who marched from the Aboriginal tent embassy in Canberra to parliament house on Friday, 13 February. In 2008, then [Labor] prime minister, Kevin …
