 Marnie's mother was one of them. Others were part of the Sixties Scoop, a Canadian government policy that enabled child welfare agencies to take First Nations children from their parents and place them in foster homes from where they were adopted by white families. Marnie tells me that when she was a child, the elders would black out their windows in order to don ceremonial blankets with the clan insignia of ravens or eagles and sing their songs out of the eyesight of Canadian authorities.