US: & Canada: Forced adoptions to promote assimilation decimated Indigenous families, left deep scars
Oregonian – January 16, 2022
Rose Anne, who would be raised by a Glenside, Pennsylvania, dentist and his wife, became a child of the country’s American Indian adoption era, a decadeslong forced assimilation of Native children first established under the Indian Adoption Project, which started in 1958 and evolved to include 50 private and public placement agencies across the United States and Canada, where the so-called Sixties Scoop was coined to describe the mass removal of children from Native homes. During the next 20 years, almost 13,000 Native children would be adopted.
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