Survivors of ’60s Scoop speak out during session – Brandon Sun

Jan. 31, 2022

The Brandon Friendship Centre Healing Foundation hosted its first session centred on bringing together ’60s Scoop survivors, family members and service providers Friday at the Mahkaday Ginew Memorial Centre.

Healing the Family Within included ’60s Scoop survivors Marlene Orgeron and Jeannie White Bird sharing their harrowing experiences of being taken from their families as young children, resulting in a loss of identity and extreme trauma that has lasted for decades.

“I identify myself as a person who was involved and was part of the federal, provincial policy of forced removals of Indigenous children from their families, communities, resulting in loss of culture and heritage in a period known as the ’60s Scoop,” White Bird said.

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