1.2M views · 3K reactions | Canada took thousands of Indigenous children from their parents between the 1960s and the 1980s. It's known as the Sixties Scoop and the effects are still being felt today. | CBC Indigenous | Facebook

36K views · 668 reactions | It is National Aboriginal History Month. Starting in the 1960s, the federal government took Indigenous children from their families, and sent them to non-Indigenous foster homes or put them up for adoption. This practice ran until the late 1980s, and is now referred to as the Sixties Scoop. In 1968, this is how the media was telling the story of the Sixties Scoop: CBC Digital Archives | CBC Indigenous | Facebook