The Fallen Feather - Kinetic Video

This policy of forcibly removing Indian children from their homes continued
through much of the 20 th century. And children continued to be scooped up by
the police or social services and placed into residential schools or non-native
foster homes up until the 1980s. The most traumatic of these times is known as
“The 60’s Scoop.”
This calculated move from the Government had devastating consequences for
Aboriginal communities.
if I will ever be able to overcome that.
National Chief Phil Fontaine, AFN.
If you were to look at my situation, yes I
suffered abuse, physical and sexual
abuse. But the greatest damage to my
psyche, if you want to put it that way,
was the separation from my family, from
my mother, because our father died in
my first year at Residential School. That
caused me the most distress, anguish,
pain, hurt, then anything that was ever
done to me in the two schools that I
attended for 10 years. And I don’t know
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