Political, Search, and Reunion
(for Indigenous provincial organizations and resources go to individual province pages)
- Camp: Justice for Our Stolen Children (Facebook)
- Metis Nation: of Canada/.Nation Metisse du Canada Connecting Sixties Scoop Survivors
- Metis Nation of Canada/Nation Metisse du Canada (Facebook)
- National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network
- Adoption of First Nations and Intuit Children, Canadian Health and Human Services.
Links
The Shame is Ours: Forced Adoptions of the Babies of Unmarried Mothers in Post-war Canada, Standing Committee on Social Affairs, Science and Technology, July 2018
Quiet Place: Final Report to the Honourable Muriel Smith, Minister of Community Services, Google Books, 1985
First Nations Child and Family Caring Society of Canada Supporting First Nations Adoption. 2012
Editorial: Native children also have the right to parents. Globe & Mail, October 10, 2010
Their Stories: The Experiences of Non-Native Adoptive Parents Who Adopted Native Children During the 1960s through 1980s
By: Leona Huntinghawk A Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies of The University of Manitoba
In partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree Master of Social Work, 2012
Report of the Working Group on Customary Adoption in Aboriginal communities, April 16, 2012
Aboriginals sue Canadian government over adoptions to white families during 1960s. National Post, February 10, 2015
Manitoba opening adoption records in 2015, American Indian Adoptees, March 11, 2015
A text of Manitoba Premier Greg Selinger’s apology to ’60s Scoop adoptees, Winnipeg City News, June 6, 2015
Manitoba to apologize to children taken in ’60s Scoop, CBCNews, June 11. 2015
Manitoba formally apologizes for mass adoption of aboriginal children, Toronto Globe and Mail, June 18, 2015
Sixties Scoop adoptees gather at University of Winnipeg to share, heal, CBC News, July 23, 2015
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Adapting the Indian in the Child: The Settler Colonial Politics of Adopting Native American Children. Decolonzation, May 4, 2016
Indigenous children for sale: The money behind the Sixties Scoop, CTV, September 28, 2016
The time they took us away: faces of the Sixties Scoop, CBC News, October 9, 2016
Quebec’s new custom adoption bill could fix ID issues for Inuit, CBC News, October 22, 2016
Memorial or misappropriation? Strong reaction to Yellowknife art installation. CBC News, July 26, 2016
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Sixties Scoop survivors pressure Alberta to move forward with apology, CBC News, June 14, 2017
Inuit Customary Adoption Incorporated into Quebec’s Civil Code – “Historic” say Makivik and Nunavik Regional Board of Health and Social Services. Societe Makvik/Makvik Corporation, June 20, 2020
Navik welcomes Quebec legislation recognizing Inuit adoption. Nunatsiaq News, June 27, 2017
Sixties Scoop survivors say $800M proposed settlement won’t heal their wounds, CBC News, October 6, 2017
Canada to Pay Millions in Indigenous Lawsuit Over Forced Adoptions, New York Times, October 6, 2017
Selling the Sixties Scoop: Saskatchewan’s Adopt Indian and Métis Project. Active History, October 19, 2017
Indigenous child welfare rates creating ‘humanitarian crisis’ in Canada, says federal minister. CBC News, November 2, 2017
Interview: Mapping the displacement of 60s Scoop adoptees, Canadian Geographic, November 29, 2017
New Saskatchewan ’60s scoop organization invites participation. Toronto Star-Phoenix, December 7, 2017
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How Canada Created a Crisis in Indigenous Child Welfare, The Tyee, May 9, 2018
How Poverty and Underfunding Land Indigenous Kids in Care. The Tyee, May 14, 2018
Feds not taking steps to notify Indigenous people adopted out of country during ’60s scoop of settlement agreement, APTN National News, May 16, 2018
Alberta’s Notley set to apologize to province’s 60s Scoop survivors, APTN National News, May 16, 2018
‘We are sorry:’ Alberta premier formally apologizes to ’60s Scoop survivors, Global News, May 28, 2018
‘You can’t do this to people’: Sixties Scoop survivors tell their stories in Winnipeg, CBC, October 21, 2018
Sixties Scoop left heart wrenching legacy for Métis families, too. APTN News, November 18, 2018
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Sixties Scoop settlement deadline will leave many out, says advocate, APTN News, August 29, 2019
Sixties Scoop Foundation begins consulting child welfare system survivors on mandate, CBC News, September 20, 2019
Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Canada. The Canadian Encyclopedia, December 11, 2019 (last edited)
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Who owns your DNA? The question matters to some Nova Scotia adoptees, CBC, March 4, 2020
Interactive map helps Sixties Scoop survivors share stories, find family, Newmaket Today, July 22, 2020
Family wins son back in court only to learn Manitoba adopted out daughter. APTN, July 28, 2020
First Nation opens bid to tend children ‘in care.’ RCI, July 31, 2020
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- Remains of more than 200 children found at Indigenous school in Canada, ABC News, May 29, 2021
- ‘Unthinkable’ discovery in Canada as remains of 215 children found buried near residential school, CNN, May 30, 2021
- Canada lowers flags after discovery of bodies at school site, ABC News, May 30, 2021
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