March 20, 2025 at 8:15 AM
"The rescue narrative — civilized West, backward East — distorts a great deal."
I wasn't rescued, I was taken, and the united church is complicit in its role of human trafficking. 🥚 #sixtiesscoop #interracialadoption
I wasn't rescued, I was taken, and the united church is complicit in its role of human trafficking. 🥚 #sixtiesscoop #interracialadoption
🥚 Hey, #adoptee rights activists—here’s a review of reporter Barbara Demick’s new exposé, Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins 1/
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Separated as Toddlers, Raised on Opposite Sides of the World
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June 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
"The rescue narrative — civilized West, backward East — distorts a great deal."
I wasn't rescued, I was taken, and the united church is complicit in its role of human trafficking. 🥚 #sixtiesscoop #interracialadoption
I wasn't rescued, I was taken, and the united church is complicit in its role of human trafficking. 🥚 #sixtiesscoop #interracialadoption
We deserve answers. Our parents deserve to know that this was not their failure, but a deliberate campaign to fracture our families. #sixtiesscoop 🥚
sookenewsmirror.com/2025/12/22/s...
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December 22, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We deserve answers. Our parents deserve to know that this was not their failure, but a deliberate campaign to fracture our families. #sixtiesscoop 🥚
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All names of anyone that donates to my family's gofundme campaign will be entered into a draw to win a painting. #gofundme #familyreunion #travel #traveling #Canada #ontario #FirstNations #SixtiesScoop #writingcommunity
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April 23, 2026 at 12:04 PM
All names of anyone that donates to my family's gofundme campaign will be entered into a draw to win a painting. #gofundme #familyreunion #travel #traveling #Canada #ontario #FirstNations #SixtiesScoop #writingcommunity
The #SixtiesScoop was an entire generation of stolen Indigenous children by churches and government to fulfill yt Christian families. It hasn't really ended. Now it's just the foster care industry 🥚
May 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
The #SixtiesScoop was an entire generation of stolen Indigenous children by churches and government to fulfill yt Christian families. It hasn't really ended. Now it's just the foster care industry 🥚
The journey home: Sixties Scoop survivor discovers his Indigenous roots in the Yukon #SixtiesScoop #Yukon
#FirstNations
Jay Mitchell traced his biological family to the Yukon, then moved to Whitehorse to reconnect
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#FirstNations
Jay Mitchell traced his biological family to the Yukon, then moved to Whitehorse to reconnect
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
The journey home: Sixties Scoop survivor discovers his Indigenous roots in the Yukon | CBC News
For many years, Jay Mitchell believed he was Métis — until a DNA test helped him find his true biological family in the Yukon, and prompted him to pick up and move to Whitehorse.
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March 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
The journey home: Sixties Scoop survivor discovers his Indigenous roots in the Yukon #SixtiesScoop #Yukon
#FirstNations
Jay Mitchell traced his biological family to the Yukon, then moved to Whitehorse to reconnect
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
#FirstNations
Jay Mitchell traced his biological family to the Yukon, then moved to Whitehorse to reconnect
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I am happy for the family and for raising awareness of the #SixtiesScoop! However, these kinds of blissful reunions are not the norm - trauma runs deep. We need support for successful reunification and reconnection to community. 🥚
August 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
I am happy for the family and for raising awareness of the #SixtiesScoop! However, these kinds of blissful reunions are not the norm - trauma runs deep. We need support for successful reunification and reconnection to community. 🥚
"It will also prevent adoptees from flying domestically without additional documentation as Real ID enforcement begins."
Many #SixtiesScoop survivors were sold over the border for farm and domestic help and remain in the US, some without access to our original birth docs 🥚
Many #SixtiesScoop survivors were sold over the border for farm and domestic help and remain in the US, some without access to our original birth docs 🥚
Partly because the Adoptee Citizenship Act is constantly ignored. 🤬🥚
Thousands of international adoptees in the United States are living in legal limbo, facing restricted access to essential benefits and the constant threat of deportation due to a failure to formalize their citizenship. 🥚 #adopteesky mwakilishi.com/article/immi...
April 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
"It will also prevent adoptees from flying domestically without additional documentation as Real ID enforcement begins."
Many #SixtiesScoop survivors were sold over the border for farm and domestic help and remain in the US, some without access to our original birth docs 🥚
Many #SixtiesScoop survivors were sold over the border for farm and domestic help and remain in the US, some without access to our original birth docs 🥚
Its pro-saviour propaganda. As a newborn interracial adoptee, I did not "fare well" mentally, and rejected Christianity at adolescence.
Actually, familial cultural connection is a protective factor for FNMI #SixtiesScoop adoptees: fpcfr.com/index.php/FP...
Lots more where that came from. 🥚
Actually, familial cultural connection is a protective factor for FNMI #SixtiesScoop adoptees: fpcfr.com/index.php/FP...
Lots more where that came from. 🥚
November 6, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Its pro-saviour propaganda. As a newborn interracial adoptee, I did not "fare well" mentally, and rejected Christianity at adolescence.
Actually, familial cultural connection is a protective factor for FNMI #SixtiesScoop adoptees: fpcfr.com/index.php/FP...
Lots more where that came from. 🥚
Actually, familial cultural connection is a protective factor for FNMI #SixtiesScoop adoptees: fpcfr.com/index.php/FP...
Lots more where that came from. 🥚
This is not news to #SixtiesScoop Survivors, and it's probably more than half in Canada where Indigenous Peoples are still grossly overrepresented in child welfare #adopteesky 🥚
November 29, 2024 at 10:48 PM
This is not news to #SixtiesScoop Survivors, and it's probably more than half in Canada where Indigenous Peoples are still grossly overrepresented in child welfare #adopteesky 🥚
January 21, 2025 at 5:42 AM
cPTSD is common in #SixtiesScoop adoptees and survivors of child welfare. More health supports are needed to treat our #adoption and relational racism trauma now 🥚
www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
“You're Native but You're not Native Looking”: A Critical Narrative Study Exploring the Health Needs of Aboriginal Veterans Adopted and/or Fostered During the Sixties Scoop – First Peoples Child & Fam...
An article from First Peoples Child & Family Review, on Érudit.
www.erudit.org
March 8, 2026 at 4:01 PM
cPTSD is common in #SixtiesScoop adoptees and survivors of child welfare. More health supports are needed to treat our #adoption and relational racism trauma now 🥚
www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
www.erudit.org/en/journals/...
RIP mom,this was the only time she had her sons in one place. 2000,when I went back to manitoba from pennsylvania.
#sixtiesscoop
In 1969,my whole family was taken as part of the 60's Scoop.
I was eventually sent to pennsylvania,sold to white people for labor in 1975.
#sixtiesscoop
In 1969,my whole family was taken as part of the 60's Scoop.
I was eventually sent to pennsylvania,sold to white people for labor in 1975.
January 9, 2025 at 6:21 PM
RIP mom,this was the only time she had her sons in one place. 2000,when I went back to manitoba from pennsylvania.
#sixtiesscoop
In 1969,my whole family was taken as part of the 60's Scoop.
I was eventually sent to pennsylvania,sold to white people for labor in 1975.
#sixtiesscoop
In 1969,my whole family was taken as part of the 60's Scoop.
I was eventually sent to pennsylvania,sold to white people for labor in 1975.
Last night I caught part of a miniseries on @pbs.org called Little Bird. It's based on a true story about the "sixties scoop" of indigenous children from their families in Canada.
Highly recommend you check it out. Grab some tissues. 💔 #littlebird #genocide #sixtiesscoop #indigenous #PBS
Highly recommend you check it out. Grab some tissues. 💔 #littlebird #genocide #sixtiesscoop #indigenous #PBS
November 16, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Last night I caught part of a miniseries on @pbs.org called Little Bird. It's based on a true story about the "sixties scoop" of indigenous children from their families in Canada.
Highly recommend you check it out. Grab some tissues. 💔 #littlebird #genocide #sixtiesscoop #indigenous #PBS
Highly recommend you check it out. Grab some tissues. 💔 #littlebird #genocide #sixtiesscoop #indigenous #PBS
...because the #SixtiesScoop never ended. There, fixed the caption.
The latest annual report from Alberta's child advocate on youth in the Alberta child welfare system shows the continuation of too many Indigenous youth being severely injured or dying while in the system, or shortly after leaving.
Advocate in Alberta says majority of kids dying in care are Indigenous
Alberta youth advocate Terri Pelton says 72 per cent of children who died in care were First Nation, Inuit or Métis.
www.aptnnews.ca
November 23, 2024 at 5:19 AM
...because the #SixtiesScoop never ended. There, fixed the caption.
Cree musician and composer reconnects with home and reclaims her birth name, at Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan. #SixtiesScoop #survivor #powwow
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Cree musician and composer reconnects with home and reclaims her birth name | CBC News
Virginia Sparvier-Wells, a well-known musician and composer under the name Jessica McMann, has changed back to her birth name as part of reclaiming her identity taken away by the Sixties Scoop.
www.cbc.ca
September 13, 2026 at 8:02 AM
Cree musician and composer reconnects with home and reclaims her birth name, at Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan. #SixtiesScoop #survivor #powwow
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...
Disgusting overstep by the Trump administration. If you live in AB, call your Chief, MLA and MP. 🥚 #SixtiesScoop #adoptees #JayTreaty #FirstNations
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Sixties Scoop survivor held in U.S. jail after attempted return to adoptive family | CBC News
A Cree Sixties Scoop Survivor is in U.S. immigration custody waiting on the Alberta government to provide adoption records to prove he is First Nations and it's something that could take months. James...
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May 23, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Disgusting overstep by the Trump administration. If you live in AB, call your Chief, MLA and MP. 🥚 #SixtiesScoop #adoptees #JayTreaty #FirstNations
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
I would like to be added please - Indigenous Adoptee of the #SixtiesScoop here
January 5, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I would like to be added please - Indigenous Adoptee of the #SixtiesScoop here
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April 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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#writingcommunity #gofundme #familyreunion #traveling #travel #redlakeon
#FirstNations #ontario #canada #SixtiesScoop
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January 20, 2024 at 8:32 PM
#IndigenousPeoplesHistoryMonth Here are several powerful films by renowned filmmaker Dr. Tasha Hubbard that address current and historical experiences of and injustices towards Indigenous people here on the Prairies #SixtiesScoop #ColtenBoushie #JusticeforColten:
NFB Films directed by Tasha Hubbard
Films directed by Tasha Hubbard Available for online viewing on NFB.ca.
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June 26, 2026 at 10:02 PM
#IndigenousPeoplesHistoryMonth Here are several powerful films by renowned filmmaker Dr. Tasha Hubbard that address current and historical experiences of and injustices towards Indigenous people here on the Prairies #SixtiesScoop #ColtenBoushie #JusticeforColten:
“Some that maybe tried to come back, they weren't necessarily accepted … not everybody gets a happy, welcoming homecoming from a community that really doesn't know much about you.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #adoption #sixtiesscoop #youngreaders
#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #adoption #sixtiesscoop #youngreaders
Letti begins her reconnection journey to her First Nation home
For Kaska Dena author Wendy Proverbs, her second book Letti in Progress for young readers is as close as she's going to get to telling her real-life story right now.“There are definitely aspects of my...
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August 10, 2026 at 6:15 PM
“Some that maybe tried to come back, they weren't necessarily accepted … not everybody gets a happy, welcoming homecoming from a community that really doesn't know much about you.”
#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #adoption #sixtiesscoop #youngreaders
#Indigenous #FirstNations #books #adoption #sixtiesscoop #youngreaders