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Analysis Of The 60s Scoop

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The best way to achieve a goal is to manipulate a child into implementing it. Children’s brains are the most impressionable, that is why there is so much success that lies within the residential school system. Humans were left traumatized, but had succeeded in carrying out the government's goal. This goal being that they wanted to “kill the Indian” in the child. To further accomplish this goal of eurocentrism, children were once again targeted, this time by the child welfare policies during the 50-80s. This time period is more commonly referred to as The 60s Scoop. The 60s Scoop assimilated Indigenous children by disrupting family structures, purposefully placing children into white homes, and creating an internalized racism within Indigenous …show more content…

The video discusses that children not only adopted habits of like the white man, but they internally became the white man. The video: “Why do adoptees feel alone?” shows two adoptees and their struggle with identity. Duane Morisseau-Beck he “always thought that native people were lazy”. They were not taught about residential schools and their history, instead turned on their culture so that they would too believe white was the superior culture. This meant that the eurocentric perspective had influenced him and fully westernized him, resulting in a success for the goal of the 60s scoop. An Indigenous child adopting the views of their white authorities meant developing an internalized racism, a racism against Indigenous peoples. This was the easiest way to put a wall between them and their culture, by pinning them against it through hatred. Children not only behaved like the white man, but they internally became the white man. Richard Wagamese highlights that “ the Scoop felt like a continuation of the same genocidal policy. For me, it meant the door was effectively slammed shut on my identity". This is due to the forced removal of himself from his home and then into a whole new culture, a white one. These people were whom Richard had become relient on so naturally he had to adapt to their ways in order for survival, which caused conflict with his Indigenous identity and success in

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