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  2. Sixties Scoop - Wikipedia

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    The Sixties Scoop, also known as The Scoop, [1] was a period in which a series of policies were enacted in Canada that enabled child welfare authorities to take, or "scoop up," Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes, from which they would be adopted by white families. [2]

  3. Canadian genocide of Indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    Part of this process during the 1960s through the 1980s, dubbed the Sixties Scoop, was investigated and the child seizures deemed genocidal by Judge Edwin Kimelman, who wrote: "You took a child from his or her specific culture and you placed him into a foreign culture without any [counselling] assistance to the family which had the child. There ...

  4. Canadian Indian residential school system - Wikipedia

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    This period resulted in the widespread removal of Indigenous children from their traditional communities, first termed the Sixties Scoop by Patrick Johnston, the author of the 1983 report Native Children and the Child Welfare System. Often taken without the consent of their parents or community elders, some children were placed in state-run ...

  5. Birth of a Family - Wikipedia

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    The reunion emerged from decades of searching by Betty Ann Adam, the eldest of the family. [3] Removed from their young Dene mother's care as part of Canada's infamous Sixties Scoop, Betty Ann, Esther, Rosalie and Ben were four of the 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families between 1955 and 1985, to be either adopted into white families or to live in foster care.

  6. The Sixties (miniseries) - Wikipedia

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    The Sixties is a documentary miniseries which premiered on CNN on May 29, 2014. Produced by Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman 's studio Playtone , the 10-part series chronicled events and popular culture of the United States during the 1960s.

  7. Why the 1960s can help us understand our confusing economic mood

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    Economic observers and historians often cast about for different historical eras to help understand our current landscape. The late 1970s come up frequently at the moment, with its fears of ...

  8. Dark Cloud (activist) - Wikipedia

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    Dark Cloud, 60s Scoop Survivor, a documentary about Dark Cloud's life produced by local students, was released in October 2020.It sought to shed light on his journey and the broader issues faced by Indigenous communities.

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