Some First Nations chiefs say the next national chief of the Assembly of First Nations should push for a national inquiry into the “Sixties Scoop” and the continued removal of Indigenous children from their families.
About 22,000 Indigenous children were taken from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families between 1951 and 1991 — a practice known today as the Sixties Scoop.
Lake Manitoba Chief Cornell McLean, a Sixties Scoop survivor himself, is moving a resolution at the Assembly of First Nations (AFN) special assembly in Ottawa this week to direct the advocacy organization and the national chief’s office to push for a national inquiry.
McLean told
