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    The siblings of a Métis man who has been missing for decades — ever since he was apprehended as a child during the Sixties Scoop — want to know why the Manitoba government keeps sending him a verification of address request, mailed to the very home the province seized him from more than 45 years ago.

    Her brother, Alex James Sutherland, was just five years old when child welfare officials seized him, along with his six siblings, from their Camperville, Man., home in 1976.

    It was part of the notoriously devastating Sixties Scoop — which saw thousands of Indigenous children forcibly removed from their homes and placed with non-Indigenous families as far away as the U.S. and Europe, during a period stretching from 1951 to 1991.

    Their mother, meanwhile, thought the apprehensions were temporary and agreed to sign a document allowing child welfare officials to vaccinate the children.

    The province began sending out health card registration verifications addressed to Alex James Sutherland — sent to his childhood home in Camperville.

    The Métis Federation, through its Sixties Scoop department, can provide the family with “wraparound programs and services … tailored to the needs of individual survivors,” said Chartrand.


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