Little Bird,TV Series.

[kburra]

LITTLE BIRD is a limited series about an Indigenous woman on a journey to find her birth family and uncover the hidden truth of her past. Hard to believe this was happening up to 1980 in Canada!

 

[Alligatorob]

I don't know how forced it was but I know many such relocations were done near here into the 70s.

When my family moved to Utah in the late 60s I went to high school with several Navaho who were in the Mormon Church's Indian Placement Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Placement_Program . I got to know some of them, seems like about half were happy enough with the arrangement, but half were not.

And the Intermountain Indian School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Indian_School just up the road housed a couple of thousand. I don't know of any accusations of abuse there.

I think most of the people doing this believed they were doing best for the kids, but am not so sure it was always the case.

 

[jimintoronto]

Even today in Canada, the Child protection agencies have to remove MANY Aboriginal children from their abusive parent. As a small ( " less then 6 percent ) of the Canadian total population of over 40 million people, they have the highest rates of child abuse, sexually transmitted diseases, sexual assaults, murders, abductions, and drug use in Canada. In the Province of Manitoba, about 45 percent of the Provincial prison population are Aboriginals, despite the fact that they are only five percent of the Provincial population total. Despite the billions of dollars being poured into their communities, from the Federal Provincial and Territorial Governments, nothing seems to be getting any better. In fact its getting worse.

JImB.

 

[kburra]

I don't know how forced it was but I know many such relocations were done near here into the 70s.

When my family moved to Utah in the late 60s I went to high school with several Navaho who were in the Mormon Church's Indian Placement Program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Placement_Program . I got to know some of them, seems like about half were happy enough with the arrangement, but half were not.

And the Intermountain Indian School https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intermountain_Indian_School just up the road housed a couple of thousand. I don't know of any accusations of abuse there.

I think most of the people doing this believed they were doing best for the kids, but am not so sure it was always the case.

Thanks for reply and information,much appreciated.