‘One kind of abuse and trauma to another’: Indigenous person speaks on child welfare system
“It just went from one kind of abuse and trauma to another,” says Jay Hummingbird, a First Nations Mohawk who was raised in the foster system.
A Grade 9 photo is one of the two-spirit Mohawk’s only childhood mementos from being raised in the foster care system — a system, they say, failed them.Story continues below advertisementHummingbird was taken from their Indigenous birth mother, herself a victim of intergenerational trauma, and went through seven different foster homes by the age of three, before being taken in by an English aunt for the next decade.Jan.
“So, they really tried hard to, like, have us tell other people we were Chinese, or from anywhere basically other than being Mohawk or Indigenous.” Hummingbird recounts verbal and physical abuse at the hands of the aunt — who regularly showed discontent for their Mohawk roots.“I think they need to start learning that they need to leave children with their parents, regardless of what’s going on, and get them the help that they need,” they say.Experts like Melissa Hamonic with Native Child and Family Services of Toronto agree.
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