Betty Ann Adam says she grew up “not knowing who I was.”
Raised in a white foster home east of Prince Albert, she was told to call her caregivers “mom” and “dad” and accept their relatives as her own family.
Decades later, the award-winning journalist and filmmaker discovered the siblings and community she had lost to the Sixties Scoop.
“I was essentially trained to believe that I was better off because I was in a white context,” she said. “When I found my family and I found community and I found friends… It was my family. It was me.”
Now 66, Adam is a member of Fond du Lac Dene Nation, an intergenerational residential school survivor, and a child of the Sixties Scoop that saw about 20,000 Indigenous children taken from their families between the 1950s and 1980s.
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