The Aim Program

 Newspaper advertisements for the Adopt Indian and Métis Program, late 1960s, Saskatchewan. 

In 1962, at seven months of age, Robert Doucette, the former President of the Métis Nation-Saskatchewan, was removed from his home in the northern Saskatchewan community of Buffalo Narrows. He explained: “it was the priest that took me; the priest told social services my mother wasn’t fit; she was too young.