‘Messed me up:’ ’60s Scoop survivors meet for Alberta apology consultations
EDMONTON — Beatrix Massee is a Cree woman from Alberta but she speaks with a slight Tennessee twang — a legacy of the foster homes she grew up in after being taken from her mother by government authorities in the ’60s Scoop.
“I was placed in a home that was full of abuse, moved around from home to home to home,” Massee, 45, recalled Thursday.
“Wouldn’t it have been better if I’d been with my family?”
Massee was one of dozens of Scoop survivors who gathered at an Indigenous school in Edmonton for a sixth and final meeting with provincial officials. Alberta has been gathering input to craft a meaningful “sorry” for the thousands of children who were taken from their parents and culture and adopted into non-Indigenous homes.