Indigenous people sue Canada for taking them from their homes as children: Vice News and Guardian.

https://news.vice.com/article/indigenous-people-sue-canada-for-taking-them-from-their-homes-as-children

By Tamara Khandaker, Vice News.....(.at bottom is link to Guardian on same story.)

August 26, 2016 | 11:03 am

This week, in a downtown Toronto courthouse, Indigenous people who were taken away from their families as children began what they hope will be the final leg of a journey for justice from the Canadian government.

They are the victims of the "Sixties Scoop," a period in which government workers took children from Aboriginal reserves and placed them into white homes across Canada, the US, and Europe — often under the pretense that doing so was in the children's best interest.

In Ontario, Canada's most populous province, an estimated 16,000 people were subjected to a practice designed, according to lawyers, "to remove the savage Indian from the child" — and now the subject of a class-action lawsuit.

Plaintiffs are seeking $85,000 in damages each. But beyond that, survivors want the government to acknowledge it breached its duty of care by failing to help them preserve their Indigenous culture.

Here is an additional link from, The Guardian, on this subject (Aug 22, 2016)

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/22/indigenous-canadians-children-sixties-scoop-court

Here is another link on the so called "Sixties Scoop" where children were taken from parents..

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixties_Scoop

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I had never heard of this before today..How did this happen? How awful..