Finding Cleo: CBC podcast sets out to solve decades-old mystery of Saskatchewan girl lost in Sixties Scoop – CBC

Siblings separated in Sixties Scoop had been searching for sister for decades when they turned to CBC for help

Mar 07, 2018

CBC News is launching Season 2 of the podcast Missing and Murdered with host Connie Walker. Listen to the first three episodes of Finding Cleo below and read about a family’s search for Cleo Semaganis Nicotine, who was adopted out of her Saskatchewan First Nations community and sent to live in the U.S. 44 years ago during what became know as the Sixties Scoop.

Christine Cameron and her siblings had been searching for their sister Cleo for decades.

The last time any of them saw her was in 1974 in rural Saskatchewan when Cleo was allowed to say goodbye to one of her brothers before she was taken to her new adoptive family.

She was nine years old, and she was one of thousands of Indigenous children caught up in what is now known as the Sixties Scoop.

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