Scooped: How I lost my mother, found my family and recovered my identity
Schedule
Tue Sep 30 2025 at 12:00 pm to 01:00 pm
UTC-06:00Location
Wanuskewin Heritage Park | Martensville, SK
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Join the SWG and, in partnership with Wanuskewin Heritage Park, welcome award-winning journalist & writer, Betty Ann Adam, as she tells her personal story within the historical context. This presentation looks at the 60s Scoop, which began in the waning years of the Indian Residential School system. In the scoop, an estimated 20,000 Indigenous children were taken from their families and placed for adoption or in white foster homes.Betty Ann Adam is a writer and award-winning journalist. She is a member of Fond du Lac Denesuline Nation, an intergenerational survivor of the Indian Residential School system, and a child of the Sixties Scoop.
She is the Executive Producer of a feature film Meadowlarks, which was inspired by Betty Ann’s story and which is slated to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in September 2025.
Betty Ann was a reporter on the Spotify Gimlet podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s, hosted by Connie Walker, which in 2023 won the Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting, the Peabody Award and the Dupont Columbia award.
Betty Ann was a staff reporter with the Saskatoon Star Phoenix for 29 years. Her feature article, How I lost my mother, found my family and recovered my identity, won the 2018 Canadian Association of Journalists award for outstanding journalism in long text form.
She co-wrote, with director Tasha Hubbard, the 2017 National Film Board of Canada documentary, Birth of a Family, which recorded the first gathering of her siblings and herself, who were taken in the Scoop.
She was an active member of the Sixties Scoop Indigenous Society of Saskatchewan.
She is Executive Producer of Everything Is Connected, a 2021 film about the overlap between the Sixties Scoop and MMIWG.
She was an associate editor at Eagle Feather News from 2019 to 2021.
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Where is it happening?
Wanuskewin Heritage Park, RR #4 Penner Road,Martensville, CanadaEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
