Memoir gives voice to Sixties Scoop experience of being raised outside of Indigenous culture

Memoir gives voice to Sixties Scoop experience of being raised outside of Indigenous culture

Children Like Us: A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home is Brittany Penner’s account of being adopted as a baby by a Mennonite family in Manitoba and searching for her birth parents.

Memoir gives voice to Sixties Scoop experience of being raised outside of Indigenous culture - The Turtle Island News

By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Children Like Us: A Métis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home is Brittany Penner’s account of being adopted as a baby by a Mennonite family in Manitoba and searching for her birth parents. Such an adoption practise—having white families raise Indigenous children—continues, points out Penner, who is now 36 years old. “I really keep thinking about…how ma…