Tag: Sixties Scoop

Through the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s, the Canadian government took thousands of First Nations children from their families and placed them in white foster homes. I was one of them. Alienated from my language, culture, and community, I was taught to hate my people.

What was it like to be caught in the Sixties Scoop, when thousands of Indigenous children were taken from their families and placed in settler households?