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A formal apology to "Sixties Scoop" survivors will be issued by the government of Alberta in 2018. (Photo: Government of Alberta).

The "Sixties Scoop" begins, kidnapping Indigenous children in Canada.

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A formal apology to "Sixties Scoop" survivors will be issued by the government of Alberta in 2018. (Photo: Government of Alberta).

Between the 1960s and the mid-1980s, large numbers of First Nation and Metis children in Canada are forcibly kidnapped or "scooped" from their homes and communities without the consent or knowledge of their families or bands, and given out to mainly non-Indigenous families. This is done based on the idea that Indigenous parents are "unfit" for the care of their own children.