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INFERTILITY   ADOPTION   POST-ADOPTION   FAMILY TREE   Adoption Resource Central    Heart of Adoption Articles to inspire   International adoption guide   You can order Family Helper publications		Native kids' voices at "Stolen Generations" BY ROBIN HILBORN, Family Helper editor
		(Dec. 20, 2003) Stolen Generations, an Aboriginal group in Winnipeg, published Book of Voices: Voices of Aboriginal Adoptees and Foster Children, www.stolengenerations.ca/book.php on Dec. 20, 2003. It highlights the personal stories, poems and artwork of 45 First Nations people with first-hand experience of the Sixties Scoop and life as a native in a non-native home. In the 1950s and 1960s many native children were moved away from their communities, to be raised in non-native foster or adoptive homes. In his study Native Children and the Child Welfare System, Patrick Johnston called this the "Sixties Scoop". The project's goal was to increase awareness of the effect of Aboriginal adoptions, to help reclaim cultural identity for Aboriginal adoptees and their families, and to set up a support network for them. For a copy of Book of Voices, contact: Scott Stephens, Stolen Generations, 94 McGregor St., Winnipeg R2W 4V5, 204-925-0300, 888-962-6294, stolen_generations@yahoo.ca, www.stolengenerations.ca For more, see Adoption Council of Canada, www.adoption.ca/news/040326stolen.htm. ________________________________________ You may reproduce this item with the credit: "Source: Family Helper (www.familyhelper.net)"