Children’s Book Review: I Know I Belong

Written by Sherri Lynn Gobeil

Reviewed by Christine Miskonoodinkwe Smith

The Sixties Scoop is a contentious and genocidal Canadian policy that was put in place to “kill the Indian in the child”.

Sherri Lynn Gobeil’s book brings an important insight to a much needed conversation that needs to happen with today’s children so that they can learn about this problematic issue about the loss and questioning of identity that happened to the lives of many First Nations children and is still happening today what is now called the “Millennial Scoop”.

The most poignant thoughts that came to mind while reading this was that not only do I identify with many of the questions Gobeil went through were the questions “who am I?, where do I come?”and lastly “Where do I belong?”.

Those very questions can leave you with an unsettling heaviness in your heart, especially if you are one of the thousands of survivors of the Sixties Scoop.

However it is enlightening at the end when Gobeil writes “Being a Sixties Scoop Survivors is only one page in my story, it does not define who I am”.

I am happy to hear that the author has found her way back home, feels loved and knows she belongs.

Children’s Book Review: I Know I Belong – Christine’s Writing