Several aboriginal organizations in Canada told the media on November 1st local time that they called for a national investigation of the "sixties" in Canadian history.
The heads of Indigenous Peoples Organization Kivartinovi Okimacana in Manitoba, Southern Chiefs Organization, and Canadian "Sixties Hollowed Out" Remains Organization held a press release in Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba Can.
Catherine Legrande, director of the "sixties hollowed out" heritage organization, said that the reason for the request for a national survey was because survivors have repeatedly expressed the need to make their experiences public in a meaningful way and find A way to reunite these indigenous families.
The Great Chief of the Southern Chiefs Organization, Jerry Daniels, pointed out that "empty in the 1960s" is a continuation of the violence and ignorance policy formulated by Canada to interrupt and destroy first-nation families and communities.
This is fully in line with the definition of national violence.
In addition to conducting a nationwide investigation, they also demanded a formal apology and set up a long-term fund to help survivors who were "emptied in the 1960s."
The so-called "empty in the 1960s" is the general term for a series of policies formulated by Canada. The specific method is to allow child welfare agencies to forcibly remove children from indigenous families and communities and send them to white families for adoption or foster care.
These policies lasted from the 1950s to the 1980s.
According to official statistics, about 20,000 indigenous children were taken away from their families, but the actual number is not known to the outside world.
The "Boarding School System" and the "Child Welfare System" are regarded as Canada's two major genocide policies against the Aboriginal people. "Emptyed out in the 1960s" is one of the typical cases under the "Child Welfare System".
(Headquarters reporter Zhang Sen)