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The chairman was determined that the structure of the committee not stand in the way of the production of a meaningful report dealing with substantive issues which could and would be implemented. The need to avoid the possibility of the committee being used merely to silence the hue and cry raised by
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In 1982, no one, except the Indian and the Metis people, really believed the reality- that native children were routinely being shipped to adoption homes in the United States and other provinces in Canada. Every social worker, every administrator, and every agency of region viewed the situation from
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a narrow perspective and saw each individual case as an exception, as a case involving extenuating circumstances. No one fully comprehend that 25% of all children placed for adoption were placed outside of Manitoba. No one fully comprehend that virtually all those children were of native descent.
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chaired the Committee. In 1984, "After reviewing the file of every Native child who had been adopted by an out-of-province family in 1981, Judge Kimelman stated: 'having now completed the review of the files... the Chairman now states unequivocally that
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in Canada and perhaps elsewhere. The report had 109 recommendations that address issues in the existing Child Welfare system in Manitoba. The following excerpts are from the report:
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File Review Report, Report of the Review Committee on Indian and Métis Adoptions and Placements. Winnipeg (1984): Manitoba Community Services; and see
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See: Margaret Philp, "The Land of Lost Children", The Globe and Mail, Saturday, December 21, 2002,
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the native organizations was clear. This study is not to be a whitewash of the child welfare system
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In 1985, the Review Committee issued a final report, entitled "No Quiet Place" and known in
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by non-aboriginal parents and in some cases international adoption. The
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United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act
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circles as the Kimelman Report, that had profound impact on
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National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women
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has been taking place in a systematic, routine manner'."
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that was part of a fundamental shift in international
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Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
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Index

aboriginal child protection
Canada
child protection
aboriginal peoples
Sixties Scoop
adoption
Manitoba
Indian
Edwin C. Kimelman
cultural genocide
child welfare
aboriginal child protection
Richard Cardinal: Cry from a Diary of a Métis Child
http://www.fact.on.ca/news/news0212/gm021221a.htm
Lawrence J. Barkwell
https://www.brandonu.ca/Library/CJNS/9.1/metis.pdf
Archived
Wayback Machine
"No quiet place / Review Committee on Indian and Metis Adoptions and Placements"
"Stolen nation"
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Indigenous peoples in Canada
Settler colonialism
Gradual Civilization Act
Numbered Treaties

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