Indigenous kids are still being taken from their parents. I’m one of them
There are days I almost forget about it. I wake up and move about my life like everything is somewhat okay. I brush my teeth, make coffee and take my morning medication. Then I scroll through my phone and check Twitter?only to encounter another new article or report about Indigenous youth in foster care, and I am promptly reminded of who I am still.
I am a child stolen from their Indigenous biological family and placed into a genocidal child welfare system designed to destroy Indigeneity. This system was never broken?it is doing exactly what it was designed to do.
Most Canadians are aware of the horror of residential schools, but many don?t realize this genocidal system continues today, just in a different way?through the foster care system, where, across the country, Indigenous youth are horrifically overrepresented. For example, in B.C., 63 percent of youth in foster care are Indigenous; in Manitoba, it?s 91 percent. Some call it the ?Millennium Scoop,? invoking the history of the Sixties Scoop, where Indigenous youth were stolen in tremendous numbers in the sixties and adopted/sold to non-Indigenous houses. I believe this system, which continues today, was designed for our destruction. The apprehensions continue, with little support given to biological or community based families to provide culturally safe child rearing.Â
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