Canada’s ‘wilful and reckless’ treatment of Indigenous children continues – CBC
Nov 14, 2021
Many Indigenous children will never see their families or communities again
I remember being apprehended from my mother twice while I was a child. I distinctly remember a white woman ripping me out of my mother’s arms and putting me in the back of a car. I was placed with white families that had no connection to my culture or identity.
As a kid, you obviously want to stay at home with your family. You become traumatized. But the worst part of the experience is seeing the look on mom’s face when you are taken away.
Fortunately, my mother was able to bring me home not long after. This isn’t the case for the majority of Indigenous children apprehended every day in Canada.
