In the 1960s and 1970s, Atikamekw children who needed medical care were sent to the hospital by float plane without their parents. The Petiquay familyDiane Petiquay, bottom left, was taken away from her family when she was six months old after being hospitalized with pneumonia. She was placed with a non-Indigenous family without her parents' consent, and only reconnected with her family as a teen. Upon her release, instead of returning home to her parents, she was placed with a non-Indigenous family, without the consent of her parents. "For a long time, Indigenous parents were viewed as primitive," she said, "as though they didn't know how to take care of their children."

Source: CBC News December 03, 2017 18:45 UTC