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Reuniting First Nations adoptees (including those in long-term foster care) with their birth families.

Welcome to the Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program web site. Reuniting First Nations Adoptees and Birth Families. The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program (SMFNRP) is a coordinated effort of the First Nations Child and Family Services agencies and First Nations Bands of Manitoba to address the issues of treaty status adoptees'.

The Repatriation Program actively searches for adoptees' and birth parents who were affected by the 'sixties scoop'.

The Manitoba First Nations are convinced that only by managing their own services will the First Nations communities be able to recover a lost generation and prevent the loss of another.

The Southern Manitoba First Nations Repatriation Program has gained national attention in its attempts to let our adoptees know that we did not give them away and that we are searching for them. The program has been a guest on Front Page Challenge, CBC's Witness, Unsolved Mysteries, as well as many other national / local radio programs and newspapers.

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"I sit and cry, but nobody comes. I reach out to hold, but there’s no one to hold. I yell, I scream, but nobody’s listening. I fight, I am angry, but I struggle to go on. I walk through life, walking in other peoples’ shadows. I try not to be seen, to be seen is to be judged, to be judged brings pain. The pain is real, but I’m not quite sure why? You see I’m Indian, but I’ve been raised white! Adopted at the age of two, condemned to living between two worlds. Growing up considered to be a ‘savage’ by one world and by the other world an ‘apple’. The lost generation, lost between two worlds, accepted only so far into both, but why? Why have I been placed in this situation, why was I sentenced to this way of life? Who am I? And how can I get back to where ever I came from?"

Martin Tetzlaff, personal memories