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The Sixties Scoop was an era in Canadian child welfare between the late 1950s to the early 1980s, in which the child welfare system removed Indigenous children from their families and communities in large numbers and placed them in non-Indigenous foster homes or adoptive families, institutions, and residential schools.
A 12 November 2020 CBC article said that $875 million class action settlement agreement included $750 million to "compensate status First Nations and Inuit children and $50 million for the establishment of a foundation—the Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation, which was launched in 2020." [254]
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 ...
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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 ...
The settlement website says people who change their mailing address after submitting a claim are responsible for alerting the claims administrator about their new contact information. To do that ...
The $10 million settlement with Massey's family must be approved by the Sangamon County Board. "This settlement is part of Sangamon County's ongoing efforts to address the tragic death of Sonya ...
The research cited on the 'Sixties Scoop' page is out of date. The 60's Scoops did not end in the 80's but is now well documented (National Archives of Canada) to have ended not until the 1990's. The 'Sixties Scoop' is now referred to as 'The Canadian Scoops'