‘Taken from our mother and father… our identities erased’

Canada's "Sixties Scoop" saw thousands of indigenous children forcibly removed from their families.

Thousands of indigenous youngsters in Canada have been forcibly faraway from their households between the Nineteen Fifties and Nineteen Eighties, in what is named the “Sixties Scoop”.

They have been put into non-indigenous properties by welfare companies, in an try to assimilate them into mainstream tradition.

Now survivors are mapping out their tales and discovering solace in connecting with others.

Video by Dan Lytwyn

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