When people used to ask Josée where she was from, she didn’t really know what to say. But through movement, she says she’s found an answer to that question, in more ways than one. He later reconnected with his brothers and sisters but missed meeting his biological mother by one year before she died. (Francis Ferland/CBC)Josée poses with her father Tony Cruickshank at the Odawa pow wow where Josée danced for the first time. (Francis Ferland/CBC)Josée says the severed family tree and intergenerational trauma left her mostly on her own to discover her Indigenous roots.

Source: CBC News June 22, 2021 07:52 UTC