Travelling tour aims to advocate for survivors and educate Canadians about an important era in the country’s history by allowing people to read the stories of those who didn’t have a chance to know their own families or culture
The Vancouver Public Library has unveiled an exhibit at its downtown branch that tells the story of 12 Indigenous children who were part of the Sixties Scoop.
Sandra Relling, president of the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Alberta, says her group bought a copy of a travelling exhibit from the Ontario-based Legacy of Hope Foundation, which created the original in about 2014. “They continued through child welfare programs that the federal government essentially vetted out through a change to the Indian Act and put it on the provinces and territories to manage child removal.”
“We had no outside influence of any kind, of indigeneity, at all growing up. So this exhibit really speaks to us coming home to ourselves, to our communities,” says Relling, who is not among the dozen people who have their stories detailed in the exhibit.
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