Ohpikiihaakan-Ohpihmeh
Subtitle: A 60s Scoop Adoptee's Story of Coming Home
Publisher: Columbia University Press; Roseway Publishing
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9781773630205
Subjects: Adopted children; Canada, biography
Description: "During the 60s Scoop, over 20,000 Indigenous children in Canada were removed from their biological families, lands and culture and trafficked across provinces, borders and overseas to be raised in non-Indigenous households. Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh--Raised Somewhere Else delves into the personal and provocative narrative of Colleen Cardinal's journey growing up in a non-Indigenous household as a 60s Scoop adoptee. Cardinal speaks frankly and intimately about instances of violence and abuse throughout her life, but this book is not a story of tragedy. It is a story of empowerment, reclamation and, ultimately, personal reconciliation. It is a form of Indigenous resistance through truth-telling, a story that informs the narrative on missing and murdered Indigenous women, colonial violence, racism and the Indigenous child welfare system."--