Sixties Scoop survivor Raven Reid finds healing as part of NMC Indigenous music incubator

CTV News' Ian White speaks with singer-songwriter Raven Reid about the role music plays in helping her heal from being a victim of the Sixties Scoop.

The National Music Centre in Calgary is giving Indigenous musicians an opportunity to produce new music and develop their skills this month.

Raven Reid is among seven artists involved in the Ohsoto’kino programming initiative.

Much of Reid’s music focuses on the darker aspects of her background as a child who was part of the Sixties Scoop.

“I was taken from my family, stolen by the RCMP officers and social workers at the time, and put into a children’s group home,” Reid told CTV News.

Reid was four years old when she was taken from her biological family.

“Everybody was adopted out to different families and I was adopted with my sister, my younger sister,” she said.

The member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation encourages Canadians to reflect on National Day of Truth and Reconciliation.

“Truth and reconciliation begins with truth,” she said.

“What I really want is for people just to listen and to have open minds and realize that life for Indigenous people on treaty lands is not the same as somebody who’s not Indigenous.”

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