Taykwa Tagamou Nation Chief Bruce Archibald still remembers how it felt to be taken away from his home as a toddler and sent to live with another family that didn’t practice his Cree traditions.
“Things like that shouldn’t happen,” he said.
Archibald was two years old when he was placed with a French-speaking family.
Today, Archibald is using that experience as motivation to keep Indigenous kids rooted in their culture.
Taykwa Tagamou Nation, located roughly 126 km northeast of Timmins, Ont., passed a child “well-being” law back in the fall to take control of a child welfare system that has had a disproportionate impact on its children for decades.
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