THE BOY WITH TWO NAMES

Three Indigenous children separated during the Sixties Scoop struggle to find their own identities, their other siblings and each other. They finally reconnect with their brother, whose two names reflect the family’s divide and his own fragile role as a bridge between two sides, only to lose him to the opioid crisis and the justice system. READ IT HERE

In a photo of Mary Ellen and three children, she looks like a girl herself. Her eyes don’t quite catch the lens. Apparently lost in thought, her tough guard is down. Or maybe she’s just exhausted.

Mary Ellen Bissonnette, 22, holds her baby Danny. On the right, her son Stan, and in the middle is the boys’ cousin Bobby.

 

The Boy With Two Names, a London Free Press story about an Indigenous family’s journey through the Sixties Scoop, is nominated for a national Digital Publishing Award.

 

AMAZING READ: https://lfpress.com/feature/the-boy-with-two-names-a-scattered-family-a-nations-shame-a-death-in-jail