Over the course of six engagement sessions across Alberta, the provincial government heard hundreds of stories from survivors of the Sixties Scoop. Their stories of lost culture, community and family will help guide the province as it prepares to apologize to the survivors.
Between the 1960s to 1980s, thousands of Indigenous children in Canada were taken from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families. While some were able to find their birth families, others still have unanswered questions about their early childhood.
The province says the next step is to sit down with the information gathered at the sessions and work on an apology, which is expected sometime later this year.
