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Nov 2017
35m 20s

As If They Were Pets: The Sixties Scoop

Canadaland
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Betty Ann Adam is a reporter with the Saskatoon Star Phoenix. She is also a survivor of the "Sixties Scoop". When she was a toddler, the Canadian government pried her from her mother's arms. She was raised by foster parents. A modern version of this is still happening to Indigenous children across Canada.  

 

 

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