{"id":748,"date":"2025-05-19T05:42:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-19T05:42:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/?p=748"},"modified":"2025-05-20T02:47:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-20T02:47:18","slug":"little-bird","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jspork.hamiltonlits.org\/?p=748","title":{"rendered":"Little Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Little Bird<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Erica Daniels<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

the sixties scoop
manitoba<\/p>\n\n\n\n

apprehensions
transracial placement\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

repatriation\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“The quickest way to destroy a culture is to destroy the family unit and take the children”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“they go into foster care, and become apart of the foster care economy. “<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“the system exists we just don\u2019t call it the sixties scoop anymore.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“the foster care scoop…non indigenous people are getting a lot of money to take care of our children.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“they didn\u2019t check backgrounds for the families.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“I think most people take family , the familial circle, for granted. and I don\u2019t.\u00a0
iI\u2019s kind of comperable\u2026 [to] being born out at sea and just chaos and\u2026 uncertainty.\u00a0 I\u2019m speaking as an adopted person,\u00a0 as soon as your adopted into a familial circle it\u2019s like being in this weird port that you\u2019ve never been to before. you\u2019re a stranger in a strange land and the only place you feel safe is back out in the chaotic sea again.”\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“our only job is to look after each other.\u00a0
take care of our kids and raise them up to be strong better versions of ourselves.\u00a0If we can do that for a couple of generations, we can decolonize much faster.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“the idea was to remove me from the family, put me into a white home, change me name, change my culture, i would lose my indian status, i would become part of, you know, assimilated”<\/p>\n\n\n\n


“my biological sister sonya\u2026 started writing letters to me.. my parents were just ripping up the letters, they were not allowing us to have anything, they wanted us to have no connection… and then i met sonya, which was awesome. because that bond we had as kids, it never really ended.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“‘It’s\u2019s just a diaper rash so I\u2019m not going to call youth protection on you.’ that\u2019s a threat. But I can\u2019t react, because then Im a hostile Indian which gives her reason to call youth protection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“it\u2019s really systemic racism. to pick up a child and decide that they\u2019re parents aren\u2019t worthy.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“the child saving narrative, the great white savior came and rescued our children from us, that couldn\u2019t be further from the truth.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“his conclusion that it was cultural genocide.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“Probably about 12 years old i began searching\u2026 i felt like i had a home but i didn\u2019t feel like i had a family.  i ended up  out to vancouver where my birth mother lived and.. it was a bitter sweet reunion.. my mum has some issues of her own that she\u2019s still working on and struggling with to this day. but i met her where she is and i don\u2019t expect more from.. her. i\u2019m accepting of what\u2019s she\u2019s capable of and you know what she\u2019s funny she\u2019s great, she\u2019s a great cook, she tries her best to take care of us.”<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“because when you put up a barrier to love, it\u2019s really fuckin hard to get it back. and some people don\u2019t ever get it back. it\u2019s like an imposed detachment disorder that\u2019s really what the sixties scoop was about, it imposed this attatchement disorder onto so many of us.” <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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“bill c-92 : governments and social work agencies are compelled to support the sovereignty of indigenous families and communities. What this means is that that cannot advocate for our children to be placed in any other family. We have jurisdiction, they cannot take our children. end of story. “

“assert authority, cause we never gave that up.”

“our survival, our recovery isn\u2019t an attempt to revise history. it\u2019s an attempt to live a good life in spite of history. 

“it\u2019s about coming home, it\u2019s about welcoming those who were taken. welcoming those that were lost. it\u2019s about a deep relationship with home. and home is the land. the language. it\u2019s our culture. it\u2019s my grandmothers laugh. it\u2019s about reclaiming that relationship with home.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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