The lasting disruption from the loss of family and culture is only now starting to be spoken of publicly, as are stories of strength and survivance. This systemic abduction of untold thousands of children came to be known as the Sixties Scoop.
After the violence of colonialism, he understands the court case as “bringing our sight back.” This book witnesses the power of that vision, its continuity with the Tŝilhqot’in world before the arrival of colonizers two centuries ago, and its potential for a future of freedom and self-determination for the Tŝilhqot’in People.Ĥ80 pages | 6.49" x 9.48" | 32 page colour photograph insert and black and white photos and illustrations and maps throughout | Paperbackįrom the 1960s through the 1980s the Canadian Children's Aid Society engaged in a large-scale program of removing First Nations children from their families and communities and adopting them out to non-Indigenous families. Told from the perspective of the Plaintiff, Chief Roger William, joined by fifty Xeni Gwet’ins, Tŝilhqot’ins, and allies, this book encompasses ancient stories of creation, modern stories of genocide through smallpox and residential school, and stories of resistance including the Tŝilhqot’in War, direct actions against logging and mining, and the twenty-five-year battle in Canadian courts to win recognition of what Tŝilhqot’ins never gave up and have always known. British Columbia, the first case in Canada to result in a declaration of Aboriginal Rights and Title to a specific piece of land. Eight years in the making, Lha yudit’ih (We Always Find a Way) is a community oral history of Tsilhqot’in Nation v.
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