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Sixties Scoop survivor traces her ancestry with dark photo exhibit in Burnaby
Dawna Mueller says it really is been a “quite lengthy journey” given that she very first figured out she was Métis and Anishinaabe in 2004, when she was 44 yrs previous, residing in Vancouver and pregnant with her 2nd kid. She opened a heavily redacted details package she gained from Manitoba’s Ministry of Social Products and services, and amongst the blacked-out facts, she uncovered that her ethnicity was both of those Indigenous and French. “It was an amazing minute for me,” stated Mueller, a specialist photographer and survivor of the Sixties Scoop, who’d coincidentally taken Indigenous reports at UBC in the 1980s — one thing she feels “spoke to [her] genetic…