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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]
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC; French: Commission de vérité et réconciliation du Canada [CVR]) was a truth and reconciliation commission active in Canada from 2008 to 2015, organized by the parties of the Indian Residential Schools Settlement Agreement.
Carol Rose GoldenEagle was born in 1963, in a religious hospital, to a First Nations woman who was unmarried. Hospital authorities stripped her from her mother. [3] Her adoption, without the agreement of her mother, was part of a now discredited program known as the Sixties Scoop. [2]
The term Baby Scoop Era parallels the term Sixties Scoop, which was coined by Patrick Johnston, author of Native Children and the Child Welfare System. [24] "Sixties Scoop" refers to the Canadian practice, beginning in the 1950s and continuing until the late 1980s, of apprehending unusually high numbers of Native children over the age of 5 ...
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In 1985, the Review Committee issued a final report, entitled "No Quiet Place" and known in child welfare circles as the Kimelman Report, [3] that had profound impact on aboriginal child protection in Canada and perhaps elsewhere. [4] The report had 109 recommendations that address issues in the existing Child Welfare system in Manitoba.