Cheryl Simmonds

When I adopted my daughter in 1980, I didn't know that I had become a part of the Sixties Scoop - the name given to the years in Canada from 1951 to 1985 when large numbers of Indigenous children were removed from their homes and adopted by white parents. Through Project Opikihiwawin ( a word that means "to nurture" in Cree), parents like myself who had adopted Indigenous children sought to connect our children to their Indigenous heritage. The book describes our experiences raising our children and our children's experiences being raised in an often racist society.