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Article: The Sixties Scoop thirty years later.(cases of adoptions of native children)
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- Inroads: A Journal of Opinion
- Article date:
- January 1, 2001
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A RAPID INCREASE IN NATIVE ADOPTION BY WHITES FOLLOWED THE CLOSING OF residential schools for Native children, in 1951, the federal government amended the Indian Act, delegating responsibility for Aboriginal health and Welfare to the provinces. By the late 1970s, "as many as one in three status Indian or Metis children were removed -- at least temporarily -- from their homes. In some provinces, one in two spent a childhood as a permanent Ward of the government. Many were adopted into white homes" (Ottawa Citizen, April 18, 1998).
Native activists and others refer to this frenzy of custody and adoption as the "Sixties Scoop." Depending ...