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Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 09:34:26 -0500
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From: Lynne Moss-Sharman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Sixties Scoop grandson: 4 yr old sent to Connecticut
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March 20, 1999 Native boy to leave Manitoba for new home with U.S.
family
Custody battle: Blood relatives fought unsuccessfully to have child
raised in his native culture
Janice Tibbetts
Southam News
A small aboriginal boy was to leave for his new home in the United
States yesterday to begin a new life with his adoptive family after his
blood relatives exhausted legal efforts to keep him in Canada.
Native activists held a last-minute rally at the Winnipeg legislature
yesterday, only hours before the four-year-old boy's natural grandfather
went to court to try to hang on a little longer to the child, who has spent
his young life in an international custody battle. "Our position is that
this child should not be removed from his homeland," said Eric Robinson, an
Ojibway Indian and member of the Manitoba legislature who has been at the
grandfather's side for more than a week, helping him lobby for the young
boy to be raised in his native culture. In Connecticut, the boy's adoptive
grandfather anxiously awaited his arrival yesterday, fearing that something
would go wrong at the last minute to prevent the boy from coming to live in
his sprawling farmhouse. "It's hard on the nerves," he conceded from his
home, where he was awaiting word on when his wife would arrive from
Winnipeg with the little boy. The youngster has become a cause celebre
among Manitoba
aboriginal groups, who contend his adoption into a white family of
means, ordered last month by the Supreme Court of Canada, has
rekindled a long-simmering debate over the ills of raising native
children outside their own culture. A judge in British Columbia, where the
boy's biological grandfather lived until his recent move to his home
reserve north of Winnipeg,ruled this week that the child should go to the
United States yesterday because he has been under too much media scrutiny
in Manitoba. "He's become a symbol of a cultural and social debate that
needs to be carried on," Justice Robert Bauman said Wednesday. "While it's
an appropriate debate, it's not appropriate that the child be at the centre
of it."
The boy has been caught in a tug-of-war for most of his life.
His mother, who was adopted by the Connecticut family when she
was a toddler, is a child of a government policy known as the
"Sixties Scoop," in which about 15,000 aboriginal children across
the country were adopted into non-native homes. She has relinquished
custody of her son and is now in a U.S. jail, but she wants him to be
raised by his natural grandfather, a welfare
recipient. There is a court-order ban on publication of the names of those
involved in the case.
"Let Us Consider The Human Brain As
A Very Complex Photographic Plate"
1957 G.H. Estabrooks, Creator
of the Manchurian Candidate
born New Brunswick
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