Newspaper advertisements for the Adopt Indian and Métis Program, late 1960s, Saskatchewan.
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In 1962, at seven months of age, Robert Doucette, the former President of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, was removed from his home in the northern Saskatchewan community of Buffalo Narrows. He explained: “it was the priest that took me; the priest told social services my mother wasn’t fit; she was too young.
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