‘We found you in a catalogue of Native children’
On Colleen Cardinal’s adoption records it says her parents were Aboriginal and alcoholics.
On Colleen Cardinal’s adoption records it says her parents were Aboriginal and alcoholics.
In the 1960s thousands of Aboriginal children were snatched from their homes and sent to live with non-Aboriginal middle class families, supposedly for the benefit of the child.
From 1965 to 1985 an estimated 16,000 Aboriginal children in Ontario were removed from their homes and placed in mostly non-Aboriginal communities.
For most, the New Year is a time of resolutions and new beginnings.
A Manitoba grand chief who represents 30 northern First Nations says First Nations people in northern communities don’t want to move away from lands they’ve inhabited for “thousands of years.”
Survivors of the 1960s scoop took to the streets of Toronto Thursday.