The scoop, as it is called, refers to the era from the 1960s to the 1980s, when child welfare authorities scooped up Indigenous children and adopted them out to non-Indigenous families. Those placed in homes outside the country weren't just adopted out of their Indigenous homes and into mostly white American families. Canadian Indigenous children were deemed special needs. By1982, the province ordered a moratorium on out-of-province adoption of Indigenous children. It's estimated more than 25 per cent of all Indigenous children placed for adoption were placed in homes outside the province.

Source: CBC News September 28, 2016 12:33 UTC