Metis feel left out of ’60s Scoop settlement unveiled by federal government
OTTAWA — Metis people say they feel left out of the federal Liberal government’s multimillion-dollar settlement with victims of the so-called ’60s Scoop, which saw Indigenous children removed from their homes and placed into the foster care system.
Duane Morrisseau-Beck, a ’60s Scoop survivor and a director of the National Indigenous Survivors of Child Welfare Network, likened his feelings to when he first learned he was adopted as a child in Manitoba.
“It just brought me right back to when I was six years old,” Morrisseau-Beck said Tuesday of the federal government’s announcement last week.
“I still get chills because it really reinforced, sort of, that memory…. It goes back to feeling disconnected and not wanted.”