Inuk woman recounts painful memories of Sixties Scoop when she was taken from birth parents
Tauni Sheldon is often referred to as “the picture-perfect baby” with full cheeks, almond-shaped eyes and sporting a frilly white dress.
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Tauni Sheldon is often referred to as “the picture-perfect baby” with full cheeks, almond-shaped eyes and sporting a frilly white dress.
A sea of orange filled the streets of Kitchener Saturday morning as the sound of drummers and singers emanated throughout the city’s downtown core.
Tauni Sheldon and her biological mom have worked to reconnect and rebuild their relationship after Sheldon was taken away as part of the Sixties Scoop in 1970.
KITCHENER -- An Erin Township woman is sending thousands of face masks and other personal protective equipment to remote Indigenous communities in northern Quebec. The original goal was to send 2,000 to one community, but Tauni Sheldon has now collected enough PPE to supply an entire region. “COVID is not picky about geography, so it has gotten into the arctic,” said Sheldon. She began collecting the donations for communities in Nunavik, an Inuit fly-in region in northern Quebec “Everybody everywhere deserves that same protection against COVID,” she said. Sheldon says in th...