Thread by @llewellynjobs

I want to share a perspective of mine.

This last weekend, I attended a gathering of fellow Inuvialuit. I went with my family. As usual, I felt awkward, like I didn't fit in. Most 60s scoop survivors feel like that.

Being Inuvialuit isn't what I'm trying to be, its who I am.

I run the same race as every other Inuvialuit and Indigenous person. I get the same judgment, the same stereotype as the rest. I was raised differently. It has not changed who the Creator made me to be.

I'm tired of feeling inadequate at functions. I'm tired of apologizing for not knowing my culture. I'm doing my best to learn.

If there are any Indigenous people who get a chance to meet 60s scoop survivors, please help them. Welcome them.

Ask them if they would like to learn part of what makes them who they are.

We're all in this together. Government takes from us Indigenous equally. They don't care how we were raised. They are the ones who helped make us this way.

Any fellow scoopers reading this, you don't have to be anything else than who you are and that is an Indigenous Person. You don't have to act a certain way. You don't have to speak a certain language. You were born Indigenous. Nothing has changed that.

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