Statistics
This percentage represents First Nations neglect cases compared to 29% in non-Indigenous households.
What is 46%?
The decade that saw the largest number of Indigenous children removed from their families.
What are the 1960s?
In the late 1970s, this group was created to review child welfare practices.
What is the Indian Child Welfare Sub-Committee?
This judge led a 1982 inquiry into the child-welfare system’s impact on Indigenous peoples.
Who is Edwin C. Kimelman?
This structural factor, along with housing and substance misuse, is a leading cause of child removal.
What is, poverty?
In British Columbia, Indigenous children in care rose to this fraction of the system within 10 years.
What is one third?
How was, newspaper ads?
This organization partnered with governments to improve conditions in the 1970s.
What is the Manitoba Indian Brotherhood?
Kimelman described the system as this, meaning it erased culture
What is cultural genocide?
In Manitoba, Indigenous children make up 84% of children in care despite being only this percentage of the population.
What is 21%?
The percentage of Indigenous children placed in non-Indigenous homes during the Scoops.
What is 70 to 90 percent?
The Indian Act Amendment that allowed the Sixties Scoop to occur.
One major reform goal in this decade was to keep children in these places instead of adopting them out.
What are their communities?
The Sixties Scoop is generally considered to have continued until this point in the decade.
What is the mid-1980s?
This advocate reported the removal of about one Indigenous newborn per day.
Who is, Cora Morgan?
Indigenous children are this many times more likely to be in foster care than non-Indigenous children.
What is six to eight times?
The type of families Indigenous children were often adopted into during this time.
What are white, middle-class families?
This was widely recognized by the late 1970s as inadequate.
What is the child-welfare approach to Indigenous families?
By this time, reforms aimed to give more control to these groups.
What are First Nations communities?
By 2002, this number of Indigenous children were in foster care.
What is over 22,500?
Estimated maximum number of Indigenous children removed between 1960 and 1990.
What is about 20,000?
During this period, child welfare policy was often described as this phrase.
What is “take first, ask questions later (if ever)”?
These international destinations were common adoption placements for Indigenous children.
What are the United States and overseas countries?
Kimelman famously said the system was paved with these.
What are good intentions?
The difference between the "Sixties Scoop" and the Millennium Scoop.
What is, a shift from permanent placement to long-term institutionalization?