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One woman's journey exploring her Indigenous roots grows into ambitious teepee-making project
Brenda Mercer was taken from her Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation family as part of the Sixties Scoop. Since then, she's been trying to reconnect with her Indigenous roots. She recently received a grant to build seven teepees in Medicine Hat, Alta.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/teepees-medicine-hat-brenda-mercer-9.7114796?cmp=rss

CBC Indigenous Mar 7

This woman is trying to build 7 teepees in Medicine Hat by June
Brenda Mercer was taken from her Standing Buffalo Dakota Nation family as part of the Sixties Scoop. Since then, she's been trying to reconnect with her Indigenous roots. She recently received a grant to build seven teepees in Medicine Hat, Alta.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/teepees-medicine-hat-brenda-mercer-9.7114796?cmp=rss

James M Branum - יעקב מתתיהו ☮Mar 2

https://jmb.mx/blog/2026/03/02/looking-for-james-mast/

I’m making this post because I don’t what else to do.

I’m looking for James Mast, a son of Moses Mast (my dear friend and mentor who recently passed away). If you are James or you know how to get in touch with him, please contact me (jmb.mx/contact) , as I want to make sure James can attend the memorial service (even if it has to be remote) but also for some other important issues.

FYI, James was last known to be in Cornwall, Ontario (see https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/sixties-scoop-immigration-1.7541323 ) , but I haven’t had any luck tracking him down.

#Canada #Cree #Metis #Oklahoma #Ontario #SixtiesScoop #Indigenous #Mennonite

Looking for James Mast – JMB.mx

Windspeaker.com Sep 4, 2025

“How many children and teenagers are still facing realities like this where…they have been cut off from their first families, where they're being raised outside of their culture, and how it's not something that's in the past.”

#Indigenous #Métis #books #SixtiesScoop

https://www.windspeaker.com/news/windspeaker-news/memoir-gives-voice-sixties-scoop-experience-being-raised-outside-indigenous

Memoir gives voice to Sixties Scoop experience of being raised outside of Indigenous culture

Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home is Brittany Penner’s account of being adopted as a baby by a Mennonite family in Manitoba and searching for her birth parents.Such an adoption practise—having white families raise Indigenous children—continues, points out Penner, who is now 36 years old.

Windspeaker.com

Flipboard Culture Desk Jun 30, 2025

Tomorrow is Canada Day, and this year has seen a resurgence in Canadian pride after U.S. President Donald Trump's "51st state" threats. But in some parts of Canada, today has been proclaimed Indigenous Survivors Day. Here's @cbcnews's interview with Troy Abromaitis, the Sixties Scoop survivor who created the observance. "By placing Indigenous Survivors Day on June 30, we invite Canadians to reflect before they celebrate Canada Day, and to remember the children who are taken and why this matters," said Abromaitis, a member of the Nlaka'pamux Nation from Lytton First Nation in British Columbia.

https://flip.it/z5-LGZ

#Canada #CanadaDay #Indigenous #SixtiesScoop #IndigenousSurvivorsDay #History @histodons

Sixties Scoop survivor created Indigenous Survivors Day for reflection ahead of Canada Day | CBC News

Sixties Scoop survivor Troy Abromaitis says Canada Day represents celebrating a country that, for many Indigenous peoples, facilitated loss and separation from their families. He created Indigenous Survivors Day to honour children who were taken from their families and lands.

CBC

Gab Apr 9, 2025

#The #sixtiesscoop was a period in which a series of policies 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 as part of the Sixties Scoop."

We took their babies.

#rememberwhoyouare #noncooperation #neoliberalhell #60sscoop #graffiti #urbanart #streetart #resist #socialism #antiimperialism #neveragain #stayindigenous #youareloved🩷

Don T3rr0r

Feb 21, 2025

Hemos visto en Filmin "Little Bird". Muy recomendada. Les debemos mucho a muchas comunidades. Justicia para todas las familias indígenas de Canadá #sixtiesscoop

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Lambert Heller Jul 8, 2024

Das Leiden setzte sich über Generationen hinweg bis heute fort, zusammen mit der anhaltenden rassistisch motivierten Benachteiligung Indigener.
In der kurzen TV-Serie "Little Bird" (2023) wird dieser sogenannte #sixtiesscoop als fiktionales Drama erzählt. Die sehenswerte kanadische Produktion ist seit einigen Wochen kostenlos in der Mediathek von @arte zu sehen. Mein Tipp: Schaut euch das Original mit deutschen Untertiteln an.
https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/RC-024975/little-bird/
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Little Bird - Fernsehfilme und Serien | ARTE

Eine junge indigene Frau begibt sich in Kanada auf die Suche nach ihrer leiblichen Familie und stößt dabei auf die schreckliche Wahrheit über den Hintergrund ihrer Adoption. Von Beginn der 1960er bis in die 1980er Jahre wurden bis zu 20.000 indigene Kinder durch die Behörden ihren Familien entrissen und zur Adoption in weiße Familien freigegeben. - Die Serie beleuchtet ein schmerzhaftes, bislang wenig erzähltes Stück indigener Geschichte Kanadas.

ARTE

PhoenixSerenity May 24, 2024

#SixtiesScoop #activist Katherine Strongwind called the move from #RCMP an “insult.”

She said there is “nothing #Indigenous about the RCMP.”

“They can hire Indigenous people but it doesn’t change their many #HumanRights violations and their continued role in #MMIWG. #RibbonSkirts are #sacred & not to be associated with #genocide,” she said, adding whoever thought of the idea should be fired.

https://globalnews.ca/news/10522368/rcmp-ribbon-skirt-insulting-indigenous-activists/amp/

#CDNpoli #FirstNations #Colonialism #Assimilation #NativeCanada #Canada

RCMP ribbon skirts ‘disheartening’, ‘insulting’: Indigenous activists

RCMP Commissioner Mike Duheme announced that officers can now wear ribbon skirts when donning the red serge.

Global News

Sean Boyer 🇵🇸 FREE PALESTINE May 7, 2024

Sheila, a family friend, a neighbour, a mother - stolen from her family as a child during the #sixtiesScoop - a woman who did everything she could to care for her community - our community, was left impoverished and without any help from the same state that destroyed her family.

She was couch surfing, staying with my uncle when his house caught fire in the middle of the night. The others barely made it out. Sheila did not.

Sheila was the first friend to go during the pandemic. There have been 9 more since then. I haven't even been able to begin process Sheila's passing.

I'm greatly looking forward to this permeant public reminder of a friend, but more importantly a role model - a person who despite having very little, gave it all. The same cannot be said about most.

May her death bring positivity, and foster a sense of community over consumption.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/city-of-saint-john-sheila-croteau-tourism-heritage-culture-1.7191694

#LANDBACK #noBillionaires #noOligarchs #noOil #housingFirst #harmRediction #reconciliation

Mural planned to honour Sheila Croteau, Saint John elder and community leader | CBC News

The City of Saint John will be dedicating $30,000 to an art memorial honoring Indigenous elder and community figure, Sheila Croteau, which will be installed in the lower south end of the city. The location will be chosen by the community group P.U.L.S.E. and the artists.

CBC