The Sixties Scoop is called such because it was during the 1960s that the removal of Aboriginal Canadian children from their families and placement into European Canadian families accelerated.

Andrea Currie, a psychotherapist and activist, was one of those children and she has now told her story in “Finding Otipemisiwak.”

Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Metis, meaning "the people who own themselves."

Andrea Currie was adopted as an infant by white Canadians and describes the impact of disconnection from her Indigenous community and culture, as well as reconnection after she reunited with her birth family.

In her memoir, Andrea Currie includes poetry and commentary on the history of colonialism and the vulnerability of Indigenous children in a white system.