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When I was born, my mom had a birth alert placed on her by St. Paul’s hospital in Saskatoon, SK. A few months later, when I was admitted for an allergy to formula (??!!), I was removed into foster care. https://twitter.com/CBCIndigenous/status/1358768874456498182
It took meeting other millennial scoop survivors as an adult to learn the St Paul’s and many other Catholic hospitals in the prairies are hospital to foster care pipelines.
Around 6 years ago, all records were opened in SK for closed adoptions and it took pulling my records to learn the truth from the racist fabrications that white adults had constructed around me my whole life. I was scooped, and in the 80s at that.
Anyways, keep an eye out for the book @fka_jayesimpson and I are working on because we are about to blow open all the secrets these institutions thought they had hid so well at our expense. Our bodies, spirits, hearts will always remember.
I'm OK. I've healed. I will use healing to generate change. But I think the thing that makes me saddest about this history now is when I talk to my mom about what happened, after realizing this didn't just happen to me, this is something terrible that happened to her too ...
I think she believes the racist constructions of white people, even about herself: that she is inherently terrible and doesn't deserve her family. When really, her only crime was being Métis in a society that wanted to eliminate her.
