\u00a0By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Children Like Us: A M\u00e9tis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home is Brittany Penner\u2019s account of being adopted as a baby by a Mennonite family in Manitoba and searching for her birth parents. Such an adoption practise\u2014having white families raise Indigenous children\u2014continues, points out Penner, who is now 36 years old. \u201cI really keep thinking about\u2026how many children and teenagers are still facing realities like this where\u2026they have been cut off from their first families, where they’re being raised outside of their culture, and how it’s not something that’s in the past. It is something that is still very present across our country today,\u201d said Penner, who has Anishinaabe, Cree and European settler lineage. When Penner started writing her… <\/p>\n
\u00a0By Shari Narine, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter, Windspeaker.com Children Like Us: A M\u00e9tis Woman’s Memoir of Family, Identity and Walking Herself Home is Brittany Penner\u2019s account of being adopted as a baby by a Mennonite family in Manitoba and searching for her birth parents. Such an adoption practise\u2014having white families raise Indigenous children\u2014continues, points out Penner, who is now 36 years old. \u201cI really keep thinking about\u2026how many children and teenagers are still facing realities like this where\u2026they have been cut off from their first families, where they’re being raised outside of their culture, and how it’s not something that’s in the past. It is something that is still very present across our country today,\u201d said Penner, who has Anishinaabe, Cree and European settler lineage. When Penner started writing her... <\/p>\n