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Podcast: Passion Harvest
Episode: ‘I was chosen from a catalogue!’: Indigenous child taken & raised as a Jewish Girl with Nakuset
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Nakuset, was chosen from a catalogue of First Nation children and raised in a Jewish family.
Between the 1960s and 1985, thousands of Indigenous children were removed from their families – often without the parents' consent – and adopted out under the program, known as "the Sixties Scoop.”
Nakuset was taken from her Cree family as a toddler. She was taught to disregard her Indigenous roots and assimilate into a new mould. Eventually, she reached her breaking point and began the arduous search for her biological family. But it also led to the discovery of her...