{"id":109641,"date":"2025-08-31T11:22:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109641\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T11:22:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T11:22:21","slug":"sixties-scoop-survivor-returns-home-to-manitoba-50-years-later-winnipeg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/109641\/","title":{"rendered":"Sixties Scoop survivor returns home to Manitoba 50 years later &#8211; Winnipeg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>A survivor of the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/sixties-scoop\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sixties Scoop<\/a> who was taken from his home in Northern Manitoba 50 years ago, is returning for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756110368_560_70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Hooker was taken from Moose Lake in 1975 when he was just 18 months old and adopted by a New Zealand couple.<\/p>\n<p>His journey to reconnect with his roots began when he took an ancestry test and was contacted by his half-sister.<\/p>\n<p>Hooker says he was never really aware of his journey until a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756402221_230_national.jpg\" alt=\"Get the day's top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tGet daily National news<\/p>\n<p>Get the day&#8217;s top news, political, economic, and current affairs headlines, delivered to your inbox once a day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI always knew I was adopted. I guess up until a couple of years ago, I didn\u2019t really fully understand how it all played out,\u201d said Hooker. \u201cI didn\u2019t know anything about the Sixties Scoop until about five years ago and then in the last year or so, really learned how it all played out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Hooker met his biological mother for the very first time as he arrived at the airport. He now heads to Moose Lake to participate in cultural healing and reconnection.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tTrending Now\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11355608\/canada-gdp-june-2025\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756639341_204_a6e0fc5630e69311d3b2b07b733355ccc104c2242153b95c67582a4726775619.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCanada\u2019s GDP just fell. The bigger story is \u2018beneath the hood\u2019: experts\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/news\/11355890\/homebuyers-cold-feet-summer-fall-outlook\/\" class=\"c-posts__inner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-posts__thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1756639341_67_Home-for-sale-cold-feet.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"336\" height=\"224\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tHomebuyers got cold feet this summer. Will the chill continue this fall?\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be really about hanging with family and getting to know people and learn about the culture,\u201d Hooker said of the trip. \u201cI know nothing about my Indigenous heritage, so it will be good to start learning and start filling in some of the blanks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Sixties Scoop was a government practice in Canada from the 1950s to 1980s in which thousands of Indigenous children were removed from their families and placed in non-Indigenous homes across the country and abroad.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on World<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2025 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Descrease article font size Increase article font size A survivor of the Sixties Scoop who was taken from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":109642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[49,48,295,66,62085,519],"class_list":["post-109641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-sixties-scoop","tag-trending"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=109641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/109642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=109641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=109641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}