Sixties Scoop survivor battles to be recognized as Indigenous

Ruth Hurst, herself, was put up for adoption soon after she was born in 1956. Her mother was white. Her father, whom she never knew, was a Seneca high-steel worker from Kanesatake near Montreal.
She’s part of the “Sixties Scoop”, Canada’s 40-year policy of having Indigenous or mixed-race children adopted and raised by white families. But like many Sixties Scoop survivors, Hurst has run into roadblocks trying to get her Indian status card, stymied by incomplete or inaccurate adoption records.
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