Sixties Scoop

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The Sixties Scoop (French: Rafle des années 60), also known as The Scoop, refers to a series of policies which were enacted in Canada that enabled child welfare authorities to take, or "scoop up", Indigenous children from their families and communities for placement in foster homes, from which they would be adopted by white families. Despite its name referencing the 1960s, the Sixties Scoop began in the mid-to-late 1950s and persisted into the 1980s. It is estimated that a total of 20,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and fostered or adopted out primarily to white middle-class families. Each province had different foster programs and adoption policies; Saskatchewan had the only targeted indigenous transracial adoption program, the Adopt Indian Métis (AIM) Program. The term "Sixties Scoop" itself was coined in the early 1980s by social workers in the British Columbia Department of Social Welfare to describe their own department's practice of child apprehension. The...

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