CBC Radio: How this Métis physician slowly came to see herself as a Sixties Scoop survivor

It took a long time for Dr. Brittany Penner to become comfortable referring to herself as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop. Born in 1989 to a Métis woman who willingly gave her up for adoption, Penner’s story doesn’t neatly fit into the familiar narrative of Indigenous children being ripped from their mothers’ arms and shipped off to white families in faraway places. Now Penner, a family physician and lecturer at the University of Manitoba’s Max Rady College of Medicine in Winnipeg, is expecting her own daughter. She wants to break the cycle.

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