Third Year Hon. Mention: The Sixties Scoop Era: Apprehension, Adoption and Assimilation

HIST 3580, 20th Century Canada. CD: Jennifer Stephen.

Abstract

This moving account of the all too often ignored egregious policy of forced adoption officially inflicted on Canada’s aboriginal peoples through the sixties and beyond is certainly most worthy of honourable mention in the Faculty’s third-year writing award.  The author judiciously relies on in-depth primary and secondary research which is most ably woven into an exceptionally well-crafted account.  While the journey is necessarily painful at times, the reader is wholly taken up by the well-told narrative in a very enlightening way.  As the author insightfully concludes, these Indigenous children were “placed...in “triple jeopardy,” removed from parents, extended family, and culture.”  This is surely a piece of writing of which the author should be most proud.