As It Happens 24:37 How this Métis doctor slowly came to see herself as Sixties Scoop survivor

It took a long time for Dr. Brittany Penner to become comfortable referring to herself as a survivor of the Sixties Scoop.

Born in 1989 to a Métis woman who willingly gave her up for adoption, Penner's story doesn't neatly fit into the familiar narrative of Indigenous children being ripped from their mothers' arms and shipped off to white families in faraway places.

But the result was the same. Raised by Caucasian parents, she grew up alienated from her own culture.

Now a family physician and an expectant mother herself, Penner is coming to terms with her identity as an Indigenous woman and a Sixties Scoop survivor — even though the latter is a term that her parents, both birth and adopti

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