It's been four decades but Leticia Racine is still trying to make sense of a battle over her custody that went all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada — and the impact the landmark case has had on her and other Indigenous kids in the years since.

The case cut her off from her biological family, her culture and even her own identity for decades.

"I wasn't ever told that I was Ojibway and Dakota. Like, that was never a conversation growing up," Leticia said in an interview for the CBC News podcast

The podcast takes a deep dive into Leticia's story in a three-part series, along with seven other legal cases that have shaped life in Canada.

Leticia's journey into care began just a few weeks after she was born in 1976. She was the third child of Linda Daniels, who was then known by her ma

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