Sixties Scoop adoptees come together for Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival – CBC
Nov 21, 2015
‘It’s a dark part of history, people need to recognize this,’ says Colleen Rajotte, WAFF director
Sixties Scoop adoptees took part in a day of healing as part of the Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival (WAFF).
Between the 60s and 80s, an estimated 20,000 Inuit, Metis and First Nations children were taken from their parents and placed with mostly white families as part of the Sixties Scoop.
“This is not a well-known fact. We’re really looking for the same recognition that residential school survivors have,” said Colleen Rajotte, the director of the festival.
“We as adoptees were sent out around the world and we never saw another brown face until we made it back home and saw our families.”
