The 60’s Scoop refers to a practice that occurred in Canada of taking, or "scooping up," Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes or adoption. Despite the reference to one decade, the Sixties Scoop began in the late 1950s and persisted into the 1980s. It is estimated that a total of 20,000 aboriginal children were taken from their families and fostered or adopted out to primarily white middle-class families as part of the Sixties Scoop.

Nakuset was separated from her sister Sonya during the Sixties Scoop, but reunited with her as an adult — only to lose her again to suicide

Story by Ainslie MacLellan (December 11, 2018)

Nakuset was separated from her sister during the Sixties Scoop, an infamous chapter in Canadian history. But the happy reunion did not last long. Warning: Th...

Canada took thousands of Indigenous children from their parents between the 1960s and the 1980s, and the effects are still being felt today. """ Subscribe to...

The 60s Scoop settlement and the issues behind it | APTN InFocus

Oct 16, 2017

We put the Sixties Scoop... InFocus. That was the Federal Government's practice of taking about 20,000 Indigenous children and fostering, or adopting them into...