Our story is about hope’: How siblings of lost Saskatchewan girl made peace with their loss – CBC

CBC podcast Finding Cleo followed family’s search for sister lost in Sixties Scoop

CBC is releasing the final episode of the Finding Cleo podcast. The podcast follows a Cree family’s search for their missing sister Cleopatra Semaganis Nicotine and attempts to uncover why she and her five siblings were taken into government care in the early 1970s and adopted into non-Indigenous families in Canada and the United States.

Cleo and her siblings, Johnny, Mark, Annette, April and Christine, were part of a wave of apprehensions of Indigenous children by child welfare authorities that has become known as the Sixties Scoop.

Thousands of people have contacted CBC News in the four weeks the podcast has been airing. Many said they have only begun to learn about the Sixties Scoop through the story of the Semaganis siblings from Little Pine First Nation about 200 kilometres northwest of Saskatoon.

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