http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/old/taxonomy/term/14083/0 en http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/impact-native-adoption/32152 <div class="field field-type-text field-field-subhead"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> Interview and Essay with Tonia Wessel, Sixties Scoop adoptee </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-image"> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <img src="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/sites/mediacoop.ca/files2/mc/imagecache/page450/pics_of_the_adoptee_0.jpg" alt="" title="Tonia Wessel, an Ojibway woman, was adopted out of her community as a newborn and grew up in New Zealand. An estimated 20,000 children were adopted out of First Nations families and placed into non-First Nations homes between the 1960s and 1980s." width="450" height="566" class="imagecache imagecache-page450 imagecache-default imagecache-page450_default"/> </div> </div> </div> <p>(K&#39;JIPUKTUK) Halifax - A recent gathering of &#39;<a href="http://indigenousfoundations.arts.ubc.ca/home/government-policy/sixties-scoop.html" rel="nofollow">Sixties Scoop</a>&#39; adoptees in Ottawa, Ontario, saw First Nations people from across the country - and beyond - come together and share their stories of growing up apart from their communities, identity, language and culture.</p> <p><a href="http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/impact-native-adoption/32152" target="_blank">read more</a></p> http://halifax.mediacoop.ca/story/impact-native-adoption/32152#comments Annie Clair and Tonia Taylor Thu, 13 Nov 2014 15:02:25 +0000 Miles Howe 32152 at http://halifax.mediacoop.ca