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Empathy Echoes @empathyechoes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Part 2 examines the profound harm early social work caused Indigenous communities in Canada. From weaponizing poverty to complicity in Residential Schools and the Sixties Scoop, the history is heavy but necessary to face. 🧵 1/3 Always with love, Echo 🫰🏽 #IndigenousRights

Title slide "Social Work’s Harmful Legacy" stating that 20th-century Euro-centric values caused profound harm to Indigenous communities.

Text slide "Poverty Weaponized" explaining how early social workers blamed Indigenous parents for state-created systemic poverty.

Text slide "Complicity in Residential Schools" detailing how social workers facilitated the removal of Indigenous children to abusive institutions.

Text slide "The Sixties Scoop" defining the era between the 1960s and 1980s when thousands of Indigenous children were apprehended.

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Empathy Echoes @empathyechoes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

The Sixties Scoop and programs like AIM scooped children into non-Indigenous homes, severing cultural ties and causing deep intergenerational trauma. Today, this continues as the "Millennium Scoop." 🧵 2/3 #EveryChildMatters #ChildWelfare

Text slide "Severing Cultural Ties" noting the goal of the Sixties Scoop was to assimilate children by placing them in non-Indigenous homes.

Text slide "The AIM Program" describing a Saskatchewan state-sponsored campaign that advertised Indigenous children to white families.

Text slide "Intergenerational Trauma" explaining how forced family separation disrupted the transmission of culture and language.

Text slide "The Millennium Scoop" highlighting that Indigenous children currently make up over 53% of children in Canadian foster care.

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Empathy Echoes @empathyechoes.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

We cannot fix a system until we acknowledge exactly how it was built. Social work prioritized child removal over family support. Facing this truth is the first step toward justice. 🧵 3/3 #TruthAndReconciliation #SocialJustice

Text slide "Acknowledging the Truth" stating social work historically acted as an arm of the colonial state, prioritizing removal over support.

Reference list for Part 2, citing Blackstock, Sinclair, and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada.

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