The Sixties Scoop: A Survivor’s Story of Self-Discovery and Reconnecting with Cultural Identity
The “Sixties Scoop” refers to the large-scale removal or “scooping” of more than 20,000 Indigenous children that were removed from their homes, communities, and families of birth through the 1960s that was supported by the Canadian Government. Indigenous children were adopted into predominantly non-Indigenous, middle-class families across the United States and Canada. This displacement left…