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Directed & Produced by Jayli Wolf

From the 1950s into the 1990s the Canadian Government & the Catholic Church were responsible for taking, or “scooping” more than 20,000 First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children from their families and communities; known as The Sixties Scoop. They were placed in foster homes or adopted (accounts of children even being sold) into non-Indigenous families across Canada, the United States, & beyond.

Along with the loss of cultural identity, the government went so far as to change some children’s true ethnicity on file. Many experienced severe sexual, physical, and emotional abuse.

Jayli’s father was one of these children.

Credits
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Directed by Jayli Wolf
Produced by Jayli Wolf
DOP/Editor/Colorist Hayden Wolf
Stylist/MUA/Hair Poinsetta Lane

Cast
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Jayli Wolf • As Herself
Mitch Loberg • Father
Nathan Shlakoff • Father (Child)
Nevaeh Samuels • Father (New Born)
Rose Samuels • Grandmother (Teen)
Nikita Shlakoff • Grandmother (Child)
Mary Samuels Mund • Grandmother
Violet Clarke • Nun #1
Kelli Smith • Nun #2
Gary Deatherage • Priest
Chris Olsen • Foster Parent
Jesse Bourgeois • Street Guy #1
Jake Brunetti • Street Guy #2
Bree Miller • River Child #1
Danielle Basil • River Child #2
Logan Loftus • River Child #3

#60sScoop #SixtiesScoop #Indigenous
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Lyrics
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“Oh hey uh, just uh, I was just gonna, tell you that, uh, well I guess I got no one to talk to really”

Father Youngblood took the children down
To the water with the cross and the bible
They were taught to pray but they left their hands up high
Grandma was young when the baby came and
She was locked up in a white room raining
Nuns held the key while they made her sign her name
They took my daddy away

My father’s blood is mine
His story beats inside me
And now I share it here with you
He’s a child of the government

Mixed up the bloodline, lost to his people
Broken and cursed, wrapped him in evil
Smile for the priest now, God save the banknote
This is a song about a child of the government

Cuts and bruises
Drugs, an alcoholic
I just saw my father
And he fell down

Now he’s empty calling
Hands in ring, he’s all in
Toothless fighter makes me cry
Yeah he’s a child of the government

My father’s blood is mine
His story beats inside me
And now I share it here with you
Yeah he’s a child of the government

I won’t wear a cross
I won’t say his name
I won’t kneel down in dirty water
I won’t pray lies
And I’ve been baptized
What doesn’t kill you makes you a monster

“There’s a lot of things that the government blacked out, but, you know no matter what happened, I’m really grateful for you in my life, cuz it’s been difficult, um and I guess I passed a lot of that on to you, and uh you know we’re doing the best we can and life’s awesome”