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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]
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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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 ...
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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 ...