Additional Aboriginal Resources

NATIVE STATUS

When adoptees reach the age of 18 they may apply to the Department of Indian Affairs who will verify their claim.  http://web.ncf.ca/de723/statuschild.html

Also, more information at:  http://web.ncf.ca/de723/nahcontacts.html

First Nations Adoption-Separation Issues and Resources

Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program
434 – 167 Lombard Avenue
Winnipeg, MB R3B 0T6
Phone: 204.985.6910
Fax: 204.985.6929
Toll Free: 1.800.665.5762
Email: repat@wrcfs.mb.ca

Creating Hope Society of Alberta
Northgate Professional Building
Suite 200, 12946-97 Street
Edmonton, AB T5E 4C3
Phone: 780.477.7961
Fax: 780.477.7918
Email: info@creatinghopesociety.ca

Native Child and Family Services of Toronto, Repatriation Program
Central Administration
30 College Street
Toronto, ON M5G 1K2
Phone: 416-969-8510
Fax: 416-928-0706
( Click to download or view the Repatriation Report)

Tungasuvvingat Inuit
604 Laurier Ave West
Ottawa, ON, K1R 6L1
[613] 563-3546

Native Services Branch of the Children’s Aid Society of Brant, Ohsweken Office
16 Sunrise Court, Box 39
Ohsweken, ON, N0A 1M0
[519] 445-2247

Congress of Aboriginal Peoples
867 St. Laurent Blvd., Ottawa ON K1K 3B1
Phone: (613) 747-6022, Fax: (613) 747-8834
General Email: info@abo-peoples.org
“CAP Online’s goal is to provide information about Aboriginal peoples across Canada who live in a non-reserve setting whether urban, rural or wilderness, including contact
links for affiliate organizations, and other Aboriginal sites. CAP provides information on legal issues, and programs and services.”

More Information and Articles about the Sixties Scoop and the Residential Schools Legacy:

• “Stolen From Our Embrace: The Abduction of First Nations Children and the Restoration of Aboriginal Communities” By: Ernie Crey, Suzanne Fournier (publisher’s website)
• “Canada’s Holocaust,” Intertribal Times, April 4th, 2008
• Hidden from History: Untold Story of the Genocide of Aboriginal Peoples in Canada
• “Unrepentant – Canada’s Genocide” (Film: 1 hr 48 min) by Kevin Annett, on Google Video. (Promotional Trailer on Youtube)

Scoop/Adoption sites for First Nations/Metis/Aboriginal people:

• The Native Adoptee – Beverly’s site of online Articles, Links, contacts
• Native American Adoption Homepage – lots of ongoing searches to read about
• Connecting with all my Relations – Adoptee Newsletter. This gang is doing great work!
• United Native Nations – Family Reunification Program
• Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program – info, links, articles
• Repatriation Report – Toronto Native Child & Family Services
• INAC – Adoption & the Native Child
• Canadian Adoptees Registry
• TRIAD – 285 adoption/post-adoption links
• Stolen Generation Alliance

• Adoption and Custody of Aboriginal and First Nations Children, Annual General Assembly
• More Resources at the Aboriginal Healing Foundation
• Custom Adoption Fact Sheet, B.C.
• A Story of their Own:  Adolesecent Pregnancy and Child Welfare in Aboriginal Communities
• Native Women’s Association of Canada
• First Nation Bans Children’s Aid Workers
• Confronting the Past (video)
• The Battle Over Native Adoption
• http://www.ajic.mb.ca/volumel/chapter14.html#6
• Copyright Origins Canada  Inc. 2010