(Ottawa, ON) October 15, 2020 – The LHF is proud to announce the launch of our new curriculum, Bi-Giwen: Coming Home – Truth-Telling from the Sixties Scoop. This resource teaches about the Sixties Scoop through the use of Survivors’ Testimonies and helps both facilitators and participants recognize the impacts it has had, and continues to have, on generations of Indigenous Peoples, and all those who have relationships with them. The curriculum is intended for learners in Grades 7-12, but is appropriate for adult learners too.

Bi-Giwen: Coming Home – Truth-Telling from the Sixties Scoop explores the Sixties Scoop and its place on the continuum of discriminatory and colonial policies targeting Indigenous Peoples and their families both historically and present-day. “This curriculum was designed so that Canadian students, who did not have this lived experience, can begin to understand what the Sixties Scoop describes and the resilience of all its Survivors. By sharing the truth, participants might get a sense of what it means to be a Sixties Scoop Survivor,” explains LHF President, Adam North Peigan, who is himself a Survivor. “We hope that our stories will help to grow that understanding and help to foster Reconciliation in Canada.”

Bi-Giwen is the Algonquin word that means, “coming home,” was given to the Survivors by Algonquin Elder, Claudette Commanda and was then used for the Exhibition, Activity Guide and now curriculum. This word was meant to explain what Survivors are doing in their life journeys – “they are coming home to themselves, their cultures, their families and to one another.” The LHF is grateful for the contributions of Dr. Sarah Wright Cardinal and Albert Beck in writing this curriculum, along with our in-house curriculum writers at LHF. To place pre-order for the curriculum package please contact info@legacyofhope.ca

The LHF is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for 20 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School Systems and subsequent Sixties Scoop on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote hope and healing in Canada. The LHF works to encourage people to address discrimination and injustices in order to contribute to the equality, dignity, and respectful treatment of Indigenous Peoples and to foster Reconciliation. To obtain a copy, or for more information about the LHF visit the Legacy of Hope Foundation website at www.legacyofhope.ca

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Teresa Edwards, B.A. JD.
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Legacy of Hope Foundation
Phone:  613-237-4806 Ext. 303 info@legacyofhope.ca