Indigenous children for sale: The money behind the Sixties Scoop – CBC
Adoptive U.S. parents paid thousands for Indigenous Manitoba children
Sep 28, 2016
Marlene Orgeron recalls the day her adoptive Louisiana parents told her they bought her for $30,000. Her brothers, they told Marlene, were “freebies.”
It left her feeling worthless.
“They told me I should feel grateful they paid anything for me at all,” Orgeron said. “I felt so guilty.”
It’s the latest revelation in a story survivors say has haunted them for decades: the money behind the Sixties Scoop.
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