'Canada Must Own Up': Manitoba First Nations Leaders Call For National Inquiry Into Sixties Scoop
First Nations leaders in Manitoba are adding their voices to the call for a federal inquiry into a dark history known as the Sixties Scoop.
Beginning in the mid-1950s and lasting until the early 1990s, a series of policies enacted by provincial child welfare authorities saw thousands of First Nations and Inuit children taken from their homes and families, placed in foster homes, and eventually adopted out to white families from across Canada and the United States.
The children lost their names, their languages and connections to their heritage.
