SOWK 2000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Assembly Of First Nations, Sixties Scoop, Wayne Christian
6 Jan 2017
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Apprehension of aboriginal children by child welfare between 1960 and early 1980s. This taking and placing children in homes and cultures different from theirs. Apprehended children were absorbed into white anglo-saxon families. Children were made to live within new cultures agenda of undermining aboriginal culture to replace these with that of the dominant european-canadian culture (chrisjohn and young, 1997; sinclair, This is post-residential school programme and seen to further government(cid:495)s. Keeping their heritage even more distant and (cid:494)alien(cid:495) makers) on (cid:494)native children and the child welfare system. (cid:495) within the report: children adoption also led to the increase in apprehended aboriginal. Children were apprehended without parental knowledge even raiding reserves and scooping innocent children from their mothers. Children were adopted into families in canada, us and elsewhere. There is claim that was an a-list was maintained for status indian children, Adoption seen as mechanism for addressing the welfare lapses for aboriginal replicates the idea of genocide (sinclair, 2009)
