Posted: Jan 06, 2021 5:00 AM ET | Last Updated: January 6
A survivor of the Sixties Scoop, Crystal Semaganis is working to piece together an identity that was torn away from her by government policy.(Submitted by Crystal Semaganis)
When I see the cultural appropriation and identity theft of Indigenous people the Latimer situation and others like it it stirs something ancient in me, that resonates deep like the heartbeat of Mother Earth herself.
I was part of the Sixties Scoop. For those of you unfamiliar with that term, it refers to the tens of thousands of Indigenous children apprehended by the government to be assimilated and raised in non-Indigenous homes. In my case, the AIM (Adopt Indian and Métis) program of Saskatchewan from the 1960s and 1970s placed me permanently in a white family in small-town Saskatchewan.