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After seven years of delays, mostly as a result of appeals by Ottawa, the two sides will have a chance to present their arguments at a summary judgment hearing in the Ontario Superior Court on Aug. 23. Television ads will soon air on both the CBC and the Aboriginal Peoples Television Network to advise other indigenous people who were part of the Sixties Scoop that they must opt out by April 22 if they don’t want to be part of the case.
The claim seeks combined damages of $100,000 for each person that is part of the class action. Similar suits have been launched in other provinces where the plaintiffs are waiting for the outcome of the Ontario case.
“Canada, under the previous [Conservative] government, wouldn’t sit down to talk with us. They were instructed ‘no dialogue, no mediation, nothing,’” Jeffrey Wilson, the lawyer for Ms. Brown Martel and the other class-action claimants, said in a telephone interview on Wednesday.
Tue, Sep 2 – Raven Sinclair, an associate professor at the University of Regina, is one of the facilitators of an upcoming conference in Ottawa that will allow aboriginal children adopted during the 60’s and 70’s a chance to discuss their issues.
http://globalnews.ca/video/1538722/indigenous-adoptee-gathering-2014
The OPSEU Aboriginal Circle is proud to support the Indigenous Adoptee Gathering that brings adoptees together in one place, to listen and validate one another`s experiences, foster healing, learning and networking in a safe environment.
http://www.opseu.org/event/indigenous-adoptee-gathering-2014
TWO DAY GATHERING FOR INDIGENOUS ADOPTEES & FOSTER CARE SURVIVORS OF THE ’60s SCOOP GENERATION The Indigenous Adoptee Gathering Committee will be hosting the first national “Bi Giwen Indigenous Adoptee Gathering 2014”, for Indigenous adoptees and foster care survivors. The gathering will take place in the unceded territory of the Algonquin Nation on September 20th and 21st,2014 at the Richelieu-Vanier Community Centre in Ottawa, Ontario. The focus of the gathering is to provide adoptees and foster care survivors, from across North America, a unique opportunity to be: (1) heard, listened to and have their lived experiences validated by other survivors; (2) be met ‘where they are at’ in acknowledgement that as survivors they are all at different places on their journey towards healing and wholeness; (3) prioritize community support while building to strengthen mutual and accountable relationships for the survivors’ safety and collective well-being; and; (4) build momentum towards a national grassroots, survivor-led, community-driven justice and healing movement to address impacts of colonial child welfare policies. The gathering will feature a series of workshops, presentations and evening activities, by survivors for survivors, with support from Indigenous and non-Indigenous volunteers. – See more at: http://anishinabeknews.ca/event/bi-giwen-indigenous-adoptee-gathering-2014/#sthash.rfRWl8nn.dpuf
An upcoming gathering of aboriginal people who were adopted or lived in foster care as children is gathering momentum as organizers visited Regina to talk about their plans.
The event, set for Ottawa, is called the Indigenous Adoptee Gathering 2014 and takes place Sept. 20 to 21.
One of the organizers of the event is Lesley Parlane, who was adopted as a small child.
Parlane says the idea for the gathering arose when she and other friends, who were also adopted, discovered they had many things in common because of that background and felt that sharing their experiences and providing support could be valuable.
She said she wishes such a community was available to her, as she was growing up.
“It would have been good to get together with people like me,” Parlane said. “My experience wasn’t bad but it wasn’t good either, but everybody had a different experience but where do you go with that?”
The gathering will offer a variety of healing circles, workshops, and talks by people who have also been adopted.
Parlane explained that she learned much about her own history – and family connections – when, as an 18-year-old applying to get her Status Indian documents, she was contacted by a Saskatchewan First Nation and told they had various records relating to her adoption and news that she had a number of sisters who had been looking to find her.
It was a lot of information to process all at once, Parlane said and it took several years for her to feel comfortable delving into her family history. Now she says, she has been visiting family on the Standing Buffalo First Nation on a regular basis for the past three years.
She is hoping the upcoming gathering will help others who may be facing similar situations.
The Ottawa event has enough room for 80 participants and is just over half full.
More information about the event is available on a Facebook page andonline, through this link.
http://aakdewin.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/indigenous-adoptee-gathering-60s-scoop-survivors/
http://www.tworowtimes.com/opinions/letters/adoptees-on-the-healing-path/
hunderbird clan For Two Row Times Taking the Indian out of the Indian. Such is the kind of thing that the Children’s Aid Society did to thousands of native children when we were taken away from our birth families. Many were told to be quiet, told they were no good, told that they were worthless. Many grew up with childhood trauma, low self esteem. Many had an inferiority complex.
Later in life some ended up in prison, living on the street, psychiatric wards, and alcohol and drug addictions. Many native adoptees thought to ourselves: there is something missing in my life but I don’t know what it is. Loss of culture, spirituality, language and loss of Indian status.
In short an identity crisis and a feeling that we don’t belong. Also the fact that many were given the wrong birth records and information about who we really were and are. Some Metis adoptees were told that we were white and not native at all. Such is the way of assimilation. If we looked white then we were told that we were. All of this happened right up to the early 1980’s.
The same kind of thing happened to aboriginal children in Australia too. Many adoptees walked alone through life with a big gaping hole in their chests unsure what to fill it with. There were birth mothers and family members who thought they would never again see their children that were adopted out. But the creator brought back many of those “lost bundles” to their original homes.
Some adoptees are now going to first nations healing centres to deal with early childhood trauma. One of these is Enaahtig healing lodge and learning centre. It is just a half hour drive north west of Barrie, Ontario. A lot of adoptees are finding out about leaving drugs and alcohol behind them to have a better life.
Many also have found that their first nations culture, spirituality are taking the place of drugs, alcohol and low self esteem. I am a firm believer that we should follow our dreams and what our heart and spirit tell us. The creator gave each of us beautiful gifts that we may use to help each other and mother earth as well.
With love behind us we can do anything. Love is the most powerful thing in the whole universe.
Life itself is the most sacred of all of the gifts the creator gave us. And when we learn how to heal ourselves we learn then how to heal each other. Adoptees are not alone: the creator has always been with us and our birth families.
Finally we know who we are and where we come from: finally we have better self esteem. There is now a law suit against the Children’s Aid Society and the federal government about the abuses many first nations children went through. It is called thewww.sixtiesscooplawsuit.com.
I was looking at it and I was wishing that there was some kind of traditional feast or gathering for native adoptees and their families. It linked up to another website and guess what: it was about a traditional gathering for adoptees of the first nations. It is in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada at the end of September.
It’s amazing how the creator answers our prayers and blesses us with good things. The social gathering is called the “Bigiwen Indigenous adoptee gathering 2014. The website address is www.indigenousadoptee.com
https://www.goodreads.com/author_blog_posts/6538010-indigenous-adoptee-gathering-2014-ottawa
Indigenous Adoptee Gathering 2014 OttawaA few of us got together and decided it was time to gather and share some knowledge, learn from each other and support each other. We have so much knowledge to share but with that knowledge we understand there is pain and healing that needs to happen. Preperations are happening to make sure adoptees/survivors spiritual, emotional and physical needs are met so that that gathering is a safe enironment for all adoptees are in different places of healing. It is time to come together and talk, share and support each other on our journeys. This event is exclusively for adoptees and foster care survivors and created by adoptees/foster care survivors.September 20th and 21st, 2014 promises to be a weekend of sharing, healing, tears, hugs, ceremony, talking, listening, eating and laughter!To register as an adult adoptee or foster care survivor please visit our registration page:
http://www.turtleisland.org/discussion/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=11794
http://www.swchc.on.ca/sites/default/files/AUGUST_SEPTEMBER_NESI_NEWSLETTER.pdf
By: Lauren Pelley Staff Reporter, Published on Mon Nov 02 2015
Delegates at 3-day conference will also discuss how to plan a path forward
CBC News Posted: Jul 23, 2015 5:50 PM CT Last Updated: Jul 24, 2015 2:26 PM CT
60’s Scoop topic of forum in Saskatoon Friday evening
Redress sought for mass adoption of aboriginal children into non-aboriginal families
CBC News Posted: Jun 13, 2015 5:30 AM CT Last Updated: Jun 13, 2015 5:30 AM CT
UBC Okanagan workshop with Raven Sinclair looks at social work in Aboriginal contexts
Friday, October 23rd, 2009 | 12:39 pm
Indigenous Adoptee Gathering in Kemptville is about healing and cultural realignment
Indigenous gathering
Kemptville Advance
A LONG AND HEALING JOURNEY
A generation of indigenous children removed from their homes in the name of child welfare are recovering as adults
http://startouch.thestar.com/screens/dc47515e-3481-47cc-9c7f-952933fcf7fa%7C~Pk~KJAK_NZT.html
Aboriginal foster children gather
CBC News: Ottawa at 6:00
There’s a special gathering in Ottawa this week for aboriginal people who, as children, were taken by child welfare officials and adopted by non-aboriginal families.
(Waubgeshig Rice)
http://www.cbc.ca/player/play/2674495373
Ottawa adoptees gathering helps reclaim culture and identity
http://aptn.ca/news/2015/08/25/ottawa-adoptees-gathering-helps-reclaim-culture-and-identity/
Indigenous Sixties Scoop adoptees want meeting with Canada’s new government
Group says invite sent in December to discuss Sixties Scoop, no response from PM or ministers
By Tim Fontaine, CBC News Posted: Feb 11, 2016 1:08 PM ET Last Updated: Feb 11, 2016 3:32 PM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/aboriginal/indigenous-adoptees-seek-action-1.3442299
Adopted in Sixties Scoop, man comes to gathering hoping to meet long-lost sister
Conrad Prince was reunited with his mother and brother in 2000 before his mother passed away
By Sarah Lawrynuik, CBC News Posted: Jul 24, 2015 3:45 PM CT Last Updated: Jul 27, 2015 12:39 PM CT
Sixties Scoop adoptees looking for their own reconciliation
http://aptn.ca/news/2015/07/24/sixties-scoop-adoptees-looking-for-their-own-reconciliation/
Apology to 60s Scoop Survivors InFocus
http://aptn.ca/news/2015/09/23/apology-to-60s-scoop-survivors-infocus/
Sixties Scoop adoptee recounts growing up in Jewish Montreal family
Born Cree in Saskatchewan, Nakuset grew up in a very different world
By Nakuset, for CBC News Posted: Mar 15, 2016 5:00 AM ET Last Updated: Mar 15, 2016 5:00 AM ET
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/real-talk-on-race-point-of-view-nakuset-1.3483377
Unsealed records could hold answers for Sixties Scoop adoptees
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/hoping-to-finally-learn-the-truth-311545611.html
Sixties Scoop: ‘They just wanted to remove an Indian child into a white home’
By Chinta Puxley, The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 17, 2015 3:43 PM CT
Real Talk on Race: Life after the Sixties Scoop
Posted: Mar 15, 2016 11:16 AM ET
National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network 