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Family in Saskatoon fighting to stop adoption of Indigenous children into non-Indigenous homes
A family in Saskatoon says it’s trying to stop the adoption of Indigenous children into a non-Indigenous system and bring the ones already in custody home.
“I’d like them to hear that they have to stop this,” said Jo-Anne Ebach. “They have to stop hurting people and taking kids away from families who love them.”
Ebach is a ‘60s Scoop survivor meaning she was taken from her family and adopted out of her community. She said she understands some of the realities of living in care and want to protect her young family from experiencing the same fate.
Her own child, Jas Morgan, was taken away from her in 1998 because of a “birth alert.” That’s when hospitals contact social workers ahead of a scheduled birth to remove the child. They have been outlawed in several provinces.
“I’m ready to fight, because I’m tired of social services walking in our family’s life and just walking over us and ruining children,” she said.
Morgan was adopted less than a year after she was taken. She said she was abuse while living with the adoptive family.
She now leads an Indigenous policy research group called Deadly Collective. The organization is pursuing legal action against the Saskatchewan government.
“It’s not even about money, it’s just about letting all the kids know someone’s fighting for them,” she said, “and that like this will have a bigger epistemological impact.”
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