Raven Sinclair (Ótiskewápíwskew) is

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and a member of

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of the Treaty#4 area of southern

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and member of the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Saskatchewan. She is a survivor and expert on the Sixties Scoop, the practice of taking Indigenous children from their families and placing them in foster care or adopting them out to white families. She is a critic of the current child welfare system in Canada, especially as it relates to Indigenous peoples. She is a professor, film maker, author and facilitator. Sinclair is also a founding editorial member of IndigenousVoices in Social Work (UHawaii), and a regional editor for

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: An International Journal of Indigenous Peoples.

Education

Sinclair began studies at the undergraduate level at the

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in 1981. She went on to study at First Nations University in the bachelor of Indian social work program. At that time it was the only post-secondary program taking an Indigenous approach. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Toronto and PhD from the University of Calgary.

Career

Sinclair is a full professor at the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Regina. She has published on the "Sixties scoop," with her work being cited by publications such as

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, and has appeared on programs such as CBC's " The National." Sinclair produced the film ''A Truth to be Told: The 60's Scoop in the Splatsin Community'' in 2016. The film examines the idea of "child saving" and the impacts on Indigenous peoples and the child welfare system in Canada with a focus on the story of the Splatsin band’s (Shuswap) experience of child welfare removals in the 1960s and 70s. She was an executive producer of the 2018 drama film ''

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''."Sharing the story of the Sixties Scoop: Sask. professor, survivor acts as consultant for movie"

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Saskatoon, March 2, 2019.

Selected publications

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References

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