Children Like Us - A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home
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- date: 26 November 2025
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Children Like Us - A Métis Woman's Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home | 1.46 MB
Title: Children Like Us
Author: Brittany Penner
Description:
A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found.
By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her family and left—all of them Indigenous like her. "When will it be my turn?" she asks her mother time and time again. "When will I be taken away?" You won't be, she is told. You're adopted. You're here to stay. You're the lucky one.
On the day of her birth in 1989, near the end of the Sixties Scoop, Brittany was relinquished into the care of the government and adopted by a white Mennonite family in a small prairie town. Her name and where she came from are hidden from her; all she is told is that she is Métis. Her childhood is shaped by church, family, service and silence. Her family is continuously shifting as siblings arrive and depart, one by one. She knows that to stay, she has to force herself into the mold created for her. She...
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A Métis girl is adopted by a Mennonite family in this breathtaking memoir about family lost and found.
By the time Brittany Penner is seven years old, she has loved and lost twenty-one foster siblings who have come into her family and left—all of them Indigenous like her. "When will it be my turn?" she asks her mother time and time again. "When will I be taken away?" You won't be, she is told. You're adopted. You're here to stay. You're the lucky one.
On the day of her birth in 1989, near the end of the Sixties Scoop, Brittany was relinquished into the care of the government and adopted by a white Mennonite family in a small prairie town. Her name and where she came from are hidden from her; all she is told is that she is Métis. Her childhood is shaped by church, family, service and silence. Her family is continuously shifting as siblings arrive and depart, one by one. She knows that to stay, she has to force herself into the mold created for her. She...
DOWNLOAD:
https://rapidgator.net/file/8cc817dafe5e672c1669b3ba6cd7adba/Children_Like_Us_-_A_Mtis_Womans_Memoir_of_Family_Identity_and_Walking_Herself_Home.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/AF256518B1EF395/Children_Like_Us_-_A_Mtis_Womans_Memoir_of_Family_Identity_and_Walking_Herself_Home.rar
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