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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]
Coming Home: Wanna Icipus Kupi is a Canadian television documentary film, directed by Erica Marie Daniels and released in 2023. [1] Released as a companion piece to the drama series Little Bird, the film profiles the Sixties Scoop through interviews with both cast members in the series and real-life survivors of the original events.
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.
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]
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Nakuset is a survivor of the "Sixties Scoop," when Canadian government policy lead to many Indigenous children being forcibly and purposefully adopted into non-Indigenous families. [2] Nakuset reclaimed her Indigenous identity and status as a young adult. [2] She earned a Bachelors of Applied Science from Concordia University in Montreal. [3]
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U.S. President-elect Donald Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out using military or economic action to pursue acquisition of the Panama Canal and Greenland, part of a broader expansionist agenda he ...