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“The pain grew with us as teens and adults. If you know you have hurt someone’s spirit, you ask for forgiveness. To acknowledge that harm did happen comforts the small child’s spirit inside us still.” – Elaine Apatchitwane Kicknosway, Sixties Scoop adoption survivor 

Dear John,
 
From the late 1950s to the 1980s, thousands of Indigenous children in Canada were adopted out of their communities, usually out of province. Many were sent as far away as the US, Germany and Australia. The Provincial, Territorial and Canadian governments gravely violated the rights of these families: to belong to their Indigenous nation, to learn their culture and language, not to be subjected to assimilation, and not to be subjected to genocide. 

After decades of lawsuits by Indigenous Sixties Scoop survivors, 2017 brought a breakthrough in their long struggle for justice in Canada — the federal government finally announced a settlement with survivors and established a national healing foundation.  

Sadly, the celebration didn’t last long. The federal government refused to apologize to the over 20,000 adoptees and recognize the hurt they caused  by racist child welfare policies.

That’s why we launched a parliamentary petition with the National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network to urge the Canadian government to ask forgiveness from the adoptees. 

We only have a short time to add more voices to this call. Will you sign and share our parliamentary petition before the December 15th deadline?