English Explanatory Dictionary

Sixties Scoop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The government practice of forcibly taking Aboriginal children away from their families to be brought up in foster care or adopted into white families, which occurred from the late 1950s until the 1980s.

Word forms

Sixties Scoop the Sixties Scoop

Etymology

Coined in the research paper Native Children and the Child Welfare System by Patrick Johnston in 1983.

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