Did you know that you can listen to the Red Man album on all platforms? Check this link:
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Album Artwork by: Diana Hellson
\"The artwork for Hope’s upcoming album Red Man, while seemingly innocuous, speaks to a very specific moment in the history of the Colonization of Indigenous People; the 60’s Scoop. At a time when indigenous communities and families were still reeling from the impact of residential schools, and before most residential schools had even begun to close down for good, the Canadian government created adoption programs such as the Adopt Indian Métis (AIM) project which promoted the adoption of First Nations children by middle-class, white families in 1967. The AIM Program would post advertisements of Indigenous Babies and Children with a Photograph, Name and Description of the child in Canadian Newspapers to find them homes; these Ad’s were used as a basis for the design of Hope’s Album Cover. This image was chosen due to the fact that the 60’s scoop had a direct impact on Hope and his family, as his own mother was a part of the 60’s scoop and as an elder, continues to struggle with finding connections to her original home territory, culture and family. The act of scooping Indigenous Children from their homes on mass is a practice that still exists in Canada today, an act that many Indigenous People recognize as being parallel to that of placing Indigenous Children in Residential Schools.\"
