Indigenous Resources - Background, Policy, Analysis: Sixties Scoop

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In our Own Words Mapping the 60s Scoop Survivor Diaspora
The 60s Scoop is a catch all phrase which describes an era from 1950’s to early 1980’s where over 20,000 Indigenous children were removed from their communities and placed in foster care or adopted into non-Indigenous households across Canada, the U.S and overseas. Most of the children were often assimilated into mainstream culture which resulted in loss of culture and identity and in some cases traumatic abuses. Many survivors are still learning about the 60s scoop, their displacement, looking for family members, healing from trauma, grief and loss of culture.
The Sixties Scoop Network formerly known as the National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network aka is collaborating with Dr. Raven Sinclair’s Pe-kīwēwin Project to create a Geographic Information Mapping platform to help 60’s scoop survivors share their stories, visualize their geographical displacements and to collect data on where survivors were taken from and subsequently displaced. This visualization of the data will take the form of a map. In addition, the project will assist in finding family members and identifying resources in different areas.
The mapping project is completely voluntary and participatory. Survivors can directly input their own information into the online mapping system and have the option to share as little or as much information about themselves as they want, as well as short videos, pictures and a short narrative about themselves. If survivors choose to locate family members, they have the option of uploading a picture, file, short video or details on the person whom they are looking for and/or who may be looking for them. Participants will have the option of removing any of their identifying visual data from the platform at any time. However, anonymous statistical data on province/area of child welfare removal, First Nations, Metis, Inuit identity, adopted or not adopted will be to inform public knowledge. The Sixties Scoop Network will have access to the (platform’s data and 60’s scoop survivor users will have access to their own information.
The scope of this project is international because so many 60’s scoop survivors were displaced to the United States and overseas. The mapping project would be a useful tool for survivors in addition to providing researchers and indigenous communities a data visualization of how Canada’s colonial child welfare policies resulted in the displacement of thousands of Indigenous children from the 1950’s to 1990s. Moreover, this mapping project will enable researchers to produce statistical data and help identify which geographical areas indigenous children were taken from and where these children ended up by using a colour code for each province as a point of origin and identifying where survivors were subsequently fostered or adopted. For example, indigenous children taken from BC would be identified using red, Alberta, green, Saskatchewan yellow, Manitoba orange etc. Visually, it will be striking to see where all the survivors were taken across Canada, the U.S and overseas.
Lastly, this project aims to identify resources for 60s scoop survivors to find support and help in repatriating, cultural reclamation, counselling and locating other 60s scoop survivors’ groups across Canada. It is our hope to include resource information that can be accessible to survivors through our platform as survivors’ stories become available.

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*Diaspora “diaspora does not simply refer to geographical dispersal but also to the vexed questions of identity, memory and home which such displacement produces” (Ashcroft et al 1989, 218)."

"Most Canadians understand the residential schools and the 60s Scoop were horrible tools of assimilation that devastated Indigenous families and caused intergenerational trauma that is still felt today.
What many do not understand is that the forced removal of Indigenous kids from their families, continues to happen today in Canada at an alarming rate.
Critics call it the Millennium Scoop – government-sponsored apprehension of Indigenous children through child welfare systems, breaking up families, often with little to no evidence that they were at risk of abuse or neglect."

"Final report to the Honourable Muriel Smith, Minister of Community Services".
"Associate Chief Judge Edwin C. Kimelman, chairman."

"Final report to the Honourable Muriel Smith, Minister of Community Services".
"Associate Chief Judge Edwin C. Kimelman, chairman."