Separated From Birth: The Reunion (Family Documentary)| Real Stories 

Betty Ann is a wonderful communicator. She could talk for hours and I would be happy to listen. So calming and loving.

This is so heartbreaking and heart warming I can’t imagine how many siblings suffer the same. God bless them

One of the 60s scoop children grew up in our community in Ontario, a friend and classmate of my 3 sons. This young man was forever scarred by living outside his cultural roots and always knew deep in his heart that he didn't fit! He became an alcoholic, was in a serious accident in his late teens that left him a quadriplegic, and died 7 years ago. A tragic outcome of our Canadian government attempting to take the Indian out of an Indian!! It is small comfort to know that some attempts have been made to offer an apology, but his life was filled with misery. The family in this story epitomizes forgiveness at its best! Thanks for yor deeply heartwarming story. I hope the reunions continue and bring you all much joy.

A heartbreaking look into the damage caused by racism, privilege and superiority. A heartwarming look into the awesome power of strength and resilience. Thank you for enlightening me.

Heartbreaking. May past Canadian governments never rest in peace. What was done to these innocent people is shameful.

This is such a heartbreaking and heartwarming story. So happy they found each other. My heart goes out to all of them. As a mother, I can’t imagine what their mother went through. It must have been agony to have them taken away. God Bless All !

Betty-Ann is such a wonderful big sister. ❤️

This brakes my heart. I am a bio mom to my first son. I have 9 children (same father) and while I made the choice to give my son up for his benefit (I was 16 and didn’t know how I could ever raise him) it broke my heart. Can’t imagine how bad it must have been for there mother. While I am luck that my son contacted me when he had his first child I still think that every child deserves to know as much as possible about there biological parents.

As an African American I feel the same type of disconnect tonight from my ancestry and it is terribly sad. I would love to learn about my heritage but I will never get the chance because my family history was erased. Not having that piece of you and having all the questions is definitely a load to bear

I just love documentaries like these. So glad they still have so many more years together. Can't imagine what their poor Mum went through having her 4 babies taken away. Best wishes to you guys❤️

Think it's great that she (eldest) was always looking for her siblings👍she loved them and found each of them, shows the power of love in families, apart or broken.🙏Bless them all.🌟

What a sad, beautiful story. I feel so much sorrow for their mum.

I don't know how many times I cried watching this, just imagine being in their shoes.....

I’m in Tears this story just made me miss my youngest Sister who passed FRM Covid in September 10 th Our Sister bond will never be Broken in life or Death I miss you Patty 😭😭😭 rip 🙏🏼🙏🏼

I am a white English New Zealander. This was a vile time in history that has yet to be put right. Watching your video brought to mind the similarities with what happened in New Zealand and Australia (at similar times). Man's inhumanity to man ..... Having said that, I am thrilled that you have begun a life together and I pray God's richest blessing upon you.

What a heartwarming story. And it's wonderful to find a documentary that is not ruined by background music. That is so rare these days.

You are all so kind and sensitive to each other. Have fun forever in your love for each other.

I ended up crying and sad but also grateful for the enlightenment that you brought back to this issue. I applaud you for the courage to take a look at the past, celebrate the present and have hope for a better future. Infinite blessings to each one of you and my best birthday wishes to all.

This is so heart breaking and heart warming at the same time

Wonderful honest story of separation and finding each one again...What a Blessing!

This is an astoundingly strong, beautiful, heartbreaking story. Such a deep, brilliant, resilient family. Thank you for sharing this important human story. Thank you for your humor, dignity and your honesty. My heart has been split open. Every Tender Healing Blessing to all of you and all of humanity.

Painful, but wonderfully encouraging. Humanity. God Bless.

The sister in the green top , the tallest one, is so affectionate. I am so glad they all found each other and I pray 🙏 they will remain together and in some ways make up for the lost time. Brotherly love is wonderful 😊 like all of you are..I am saddened by the thought that you have been ripped off of your beautiful heritage.Your mother is beautiful and she must've suffered a lot loosing you beautiful children. i send you a big hug and healing blessing all the way from Italy. ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ ❤️

I just found this lovely story of bonding after all these years in a week that is in your soul forever from the the region and the mother you came from. 🥰🤗💕🙏

What a lovely group of siblings, im SO happy they found eachother and can finally be together. Shame on whoever removed them from their mother and robbed them a lifetime of love. All they can do is pick up and be together now.

I kind of fell in love with you all watching this, including your mother whose presence you made tangible. Your account resonated with me and affirmed some of my own cultural turmoil as a result of having a mother who narrowly survived WWII Germany. Just as military wars don't end when the bullets stop, psychological and social destruction reverberates for generations to come. I think we need to recognise that there are many Holocausts, many of them seemingly quiet and mainstream. It's not just governments who have to stop doing these things: each of us has a personal responsibility to examine our unconscious biases, the most insidious way we propagate inequality. This is one of the best documentaries I've had the privilege to view (twice now). Thank you lovely Betty Ann, Esther, Rose and Ben, for sharing the most intimate details of your family story and well done to all those involved in the making of this testimony.

God bless your Mother. She would be so proud of you all. I grew up in Sask and Northern BC. I had many indigenous friends. You are all so amazing

Brilliant documentary

Wow,what a beautiful family,so full of laughter and fun..that's living!! Happy for u all..family is everything,I myself crave that feeling and your so lucky to have each other!! God bless each of u,keep laughing and spending time together..life is short!

would be nice if they all had a family reunion with families. What a joyful time that would be. I am so happy they are reunited.

Oh my goodness I swear this was so so touching!😪 My 💖 was aching right along with you guys as far as the longing part. Im so very glad you guys actually had the opportunity to spend time together to feel eachother out physically for the 1st time! Yaaay 😃 And to be honest you guys seemed to me as if you had known eachother all along. I mean as if you grew up together. As the old saying goes Blood is thicker than water 💯 It definitely shined through. So much love. Your mother must have been Smiling down on you guys😇💫 This was beautiful and I pray that for your 1st official reunion it's even fuller of love. God Bless you All Always 🙏🏽

So happy for you all!!! I’m not a Canadian, but feel the government was so wrong in what they did. My daughter (we are white) is married to an indigenous Costa Rican man. Through him and his very tight knit family, I have witnessed how important their culture is to them. They have two local farms and have a classroom where they teach about their heritage and the Bri Bri religion. Bless you all for finding each other!!

I cried when you all played the indengious music instrument.... ❤❤❤ I got shivers

😡 every 3 months take a baby, put it in a new home, new people, new routine, new enviroment, TRAUMATIZE it every 3 MONTHS so the ADULTS don't get attached!!!!????? OMFG....this infuriates me, and makes me literally sick to my stomach!!

Bitter story when they were taken from their mom, but SWEET to see the blessed outcome of these heartfelt siblings. Teary eyes watching. Heartbreaking but a very deep loving and moving story. Thank you for sharing your life. 😢❤🎉 Happy Birthday to all of you!

A sad family history is well told in such a beautiful art form. I wish you and 20,000 other indigenous families the best.

You don't have to find a way to be a family as the pull of your heart has already made you family, Contentment love and wisdom has made you family, You never anything else but family since you all were children, This is why you are all together again today

Wow! How sweet, when they laugh and hug each other.

This is so beautiful and heartwarming. Happy New Year everyone! 🎆

OH‼️ I feel the pain of the siblings. I had a similar separation from my brothers and a sister

I'm so happy that you're all together. I'm Canadian by birth, but live in the states. I pray you all stay close as the years go by. ❤

How WONDERFUL they found each other again and my heart breaks for them being separated,then my heart soars for them being a family...God bless you all & I'm looking forward to future family gatherings for you all... much love & happiness for you all 💜😀🌹

I remember watching when these 4 siblings met for the first time.. Tears then, tears now on Thursday morning 5/19/22..

I am so happy for this siblings they are together as a family now .

How heart breaking, cruel and absolutely shocking what the Canadian Government did to these people. I truly hope they build their “ together” lives getting to know each other once again. Best of everything to you all…..you deserve it!

They all look alike, sound alike and seem to have similar personalities...even with their different upbringings. Amazing.

not taken stolen cultural genocide and this happened during my lifetime im sickened by it

A very Happy New Year everyone. Stay blessed :)

I love that there's a natural dynamic between the 4, much like me and my siblings , even though it was the first.

You four are amazing, and beautiful and strong!! Be safe. Be happy.

The love of a family awwwwwwww I have been teary eyed the whole video. So sweet

I love you guys, you are all beautiful , beautiful souls. I am so deeply and sincerely sorry for the pain that you and your sweet mother had to endure. Please be together often. One day the earth will call you all home where you will all get your turn at eternity with your dear mother. Together as it should be.This is just the beginning guys ❤❤❤❤❤

I have Cherokee Indian from my Dad's side and proud of my heritage. We were not taught the language or their ways. My uncles and aunts had the darker trait , and my daughter was born she had that same. My Dad had the coal black hair and so did the others. oh the pretty eyes. I feel hurt how all Indian were treated. My Dad would talk about his Uncle and his wife. I have the features but not the skin tone. Oh how I love to hear of our history and I love to watch the dances when on tv and the clothes are awesome. My sister passed March 15th , she is flying high with the Spirits and those before her...Thanks for sharing your story.. I am glad you got back together..

Wonderful siblings finally together.

A wonderful film, thank you for sharing a really personal experience. I wish you all peace and healing ❤️💙❤️💙

Watching this for the second time. So sorry you were torn apart but so happy you found each other again.

What a beautiful story. I enjoyed your meet up and all you did in the week you spent together. I’m sure it was very emotional on many levels. So happy for you all.

It is so sad that these people were stripped of their heritage. Indigenous people were here first on the North American continent. They are the true North American people. I’m ashamed of the people who did this to them.

I have a lot of Canadian relatives and used to go every year to stay with family there. I remember going to a Native reservation and still have some souvenirs from it. This story was very sad , a lot of pain and hurt amongst joy. 🇨🇦☮️💟💯🌟

I'm so glad to see such a beautiful 1st-union! I'm always so appalled to see racism. I'm white, but could never fathom why people hate others different from themselves. Born in Nova Scotia, Canada, my mother was the oldest of 11 kids when her mother died in childbirth. After that, my mother went to live with an aunt, thereby losing her family along with her mother. When she was 18, my mother became a nun, one of the few choices for women back then. Times changed, and she realized she didn't have to hide any longer and suffer the demands of the Catholic church. One of her tasks while in service to God was to iron all the clothing worn by the other sisters. This life was too much after awhile, and she asked to leave. Then my father found her after WWII, and they had a family of 5 children in the USA. But one thing that always bothered me about her time in the convent was that she was a teacher. This meant that she would have taught the First Nation children their studies. For her part in this, I apologize. I know she didn't have malice, and she was a very kind person, so she would have treated the children well. But, it hurts to know she was on the wrong side of an effort. I know she was in that position due to circumstances, and had to comply with expectations. Personally, I deeply respect the First Nation people, and I wish you the best.❤❤❤❤🙏🙏🏾🙏🙏🏾😑🌏🌍🌎🤲🦋🍁🐎🦌 This video was very, very good. It was important, and meaningful for me to see. Blessed be all of the people, for we are all one. All one planet/universe/s. 🙏🙏🏾🙏🙏🏾🙏🙏🏾🌏🌍🌎

My heart hurts so bad for what was done to the native people....I cried with this family. You are not less than a white person. God made us all equal. This should never have happened to your family!

This is just warming my heart to watch ! They are so excited to just be together! “Look at us this is so weird we are a family !” I’m so happy they found each other, it’s a shame they were separated but if they weren’t then they wouldn’t have been reunited. And if you look at all at families who disown each other and all the siblings who hate each other… maybe this was the best thing who knows.

A blessed and Happy New Year 🙏

Unbelievable journey! I Can’t hold my tear watching and listening to their story. Wishing u guys all the best in rebuilding your FAMILY!!!

Heartbreaking. Happy end, but still so heartbreaking. People's lives...

So sad and angry at the same time-. Happy you go to find eachother.... You should have never been abused by a system that took over your land.❤️

You four are so sweet together. Im sorry your family was divided☹️. I enjoyed your video.

What a Beautiful video and beautiful family sad circumstances indeed I wish this family the best I hope they do well and keep in touch and stay as a family together

I ❤ their laughter! I pray for you and your extended family's. What really makes me angry is who thought they had the right to do this? I saw a documentary and read some stories online about a man who was in a residential school. Queen Elizabeth had her people go to Canada (not sure if she was there?), pick up 10 children, take them for some special event where they were on show, BUT AFTERWARDS THEY WERE NEVER SEEN AGAIN, HEARD FROM, NOT ONE CHILD RETURNED, *ALL* OF THE CHILDREN DISAPPEARED! The man interviewed said his friend's were killed after the special event. He was harassed for telling his story but he never gave up trying to find out exactly what happened before he died other than the little amount he found out. His story was supposedly debunked and claimed as false because there was no evidence supporting his story. I've told friends of 38 years (now former friend's, my landlord's) something 6½ weeks ago about trespasser's outside of my bedroom windows near every night since November 17th. They've said that my meds are making me see things, I'm creating drama to get attention and that I'm lying. They've convinced our sheriff's deputy's that their opinion is the truth when they have no basis, no evidence, they don't know what meds I'm on nor do they know all of my diagnoses, they're not licensed physician's. JUST BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T BELIEVE YOU, THAT THEY MAKE EVERYTHING APPEAR THAT YOU'RE CRAZY AND LYING DOESN'T MEAN IT NEVER HAPPENED, IT'S NOT HAPPENING CURRENTLY. JUST BECAUSE THERE IS NO EVIDENCE DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY'RE RIGHT! My point is that thing's happen that cannot be explained, many times no reasons can be found for the choices other's make that DEVASTATES our lives and many times no evidence is found to support our truths. BUT THE TRUTH HAS TO BE TOLD ANYWAY!!! I'm so glad you found each other! I'm sorry that this happened to you and your family! The people who've done these things and the people who've not believed us and said we lied - they'll be judged for it all when they die and stand before our creator. That's the only way I can go on. I know the value of the truth. Keep loving each other now that you've been reunited. I pray that it comforts you all and allows you to heal a lot. Love and hugz to you 4 as well as anyone who reads this. Tree

I so hope humanity learns that abusing power and trying to take control of other cultures as you believe they are inferior to yours only causes harm and damage. Every one is an individual and so needs to be treated with the respect they deserve. I am adopted so under the feeling of lose, but what happens to this family was beyond disgusting. I wish them all the very best.

As First Nation Indiginous people i want to tell you that you're very special & Beautiful. It's wonderful to see you reunited & sharing this special time together with the world.Over the years i've been shocked in learning of many peoples being seperated from their culture, language & famillies. That anyone in this day & age would be so insensitive as to suggest to you that it was a good thing is beyond my comprehension. Thankyou ❤🧡💛💚

This is an excellent documentary. So sad yet also celebratory. We, my Australian Aboriginal people have the same the same ame story. Our Australian government also apologised. Too little too late. The damage is done. Those children who were taken away, we refer to as Stolen Generations. Stripped of their families, language and culture.

Sooo Wonderful !!!!

This episode really touched me it is so overwhelming I cried along with them and I Rejoice with them how dare our nation take someone away from their own Heritage this is unbelievable I pray that they stay close and continue to interact in each other's lives may God bless each of them always

Mary Jane is smiling down on her wonderful children, no doubt. All the while thumbing her nose at the Canadian government. It is so nice to see them all together. =) There is nothing better than a wax glazed cake! OMG I was rolling.

I hope they keep each other in contact. This is heartbreaking 💔 They this in Chile in the 60 and 70’s too. They told to the poor families the babies were born dead and they stole the babies and place them in adoptive parents in Europe and here in The USA. Evil and Cruelty to the core!!🥺😢

Their laughter harmonizes perfectly

The elder! Such a beautiful man.

Heartbreaking and powerful.

Heartwarming story

Everyone needs to watch this. When they meet the elder I was just so emotional. It is so wrong what we have done in America and Canada to native people. To think that they were just assimilated into white culture and deprived of their roots is just infuriating. They all handle this experience with such grace and humor.

This is so heartbreaking and heartwarming at the same time. I would love to know how they are all doing ❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

Very eye opening, and we here in the States are just as at fault for the treatment our government did as well in the past. As a white man, its hard to burden a guilt of something I wasn't a part of, but I agree with the many different peoples of race that were mistreated. Also, I believe there were many white people who didn't agree with this "policy" of evil. I hope this is also considered. The best avenue going forward is admittance by our current leaders and forgiveness from our fellow citizens that were affected. I truly believe that is what our Creator wants. The struggle I saw that is heartbreaking is four siblings trying to bond after being complete strangers. Each were raised by different families and were nurtured and natured differently and have a bond with their adoptive families through experience. I can't imagine what it must be like to have to learn that sibling bond with new people in my life. The hope of bonding must start with their mom as the basis and go from there. I'm glad they found each other so the healing can begin. I'd like to see a follow up.

The Native American Indians were also taken from their families,homes & put in schools too! Very young,all ages!! From listening to the individuals,look at them,their lives they live,the Spirit of their ancestors are still there in them,I can tell!! Their mannerisms!

Beautiful

Beautiful, awesome, sad & VERY IMPORTANT information. Glad it came my way to watch (& think about)! 🐾❤🐾👍

incredibly touching..just no words

I can't imagine how children can be givens up with all the help there is to day it makes me so sad

This is heartbreaking to see your your babies just taken away because they one felt that you’re not capable to handle your children to raise them. However, this is happy sweet reunion if there was a way to write the wrong it would have all they have to do move forward with respect.

Such an adorable family ❤️

Glad you found each other that's so sweet 😊

I'm not crying, you're crying 😢!

I’m sure there are many family stories like yours, some of which were very sad in the loss of children. I hear of so many deaths at the schools and abuse too. I support a school in South Dakota a little. The kids seem happy but who knows ?

I have three adopted siblings- one sister close to my age (in our 60s) and two younger brothers, ten years younger. I helped raise the two younger brothers who are First Nation. My sister is not First Nation. All three suffered equally, it seems, from adoption. My sister's parents were unwed and gave her up to protect the family honor. She has just reconnected with some of the siblings in recent years; her birth parents were already deceased. One of my First Nation brother's mother died when he was just a baby, and there was no one to care for him. He connected with his birth family. The other brother is not making a great effort to connect, although I encourage it. Both of them have embraced friends of every culture which is beautiful. However, years ago, when I became an adult, I felt incredible guilt for our family taking my two brothers away from their FN culture. My parents only requested children, not children of any specific ethnic group, so this is not something I feel that my parents can truly bear responsibility for. We just loved them. In fact, I loved them so much that I was willing to give up having my own children just to protect my younger brothers. Not realistic, but real love knows no race or ethnicity. There is no way to undo the wrong that was done to so many innocent children, including my sister, who was given up just to protect the honor of the families of her unmarried parents. This is a very miserable part of our historic past that cannot be undone, but the government needs to do all that it can to reunite siblings separated by adoption. We need to see that the needs of the children come first.

Just amazing Happy they found each other Enjoyed one the best I've seen 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤️🇬🇩👍🙏

So bloody sad, I’m so glad they found each other but to be taken from their Mum must of been so traumatising for everyone 😪😪😪😪😪

You can take the Indian child from their culture. But you can NEVER take the culture from the Indian child. We see that here. I'm so glad they were blessed to meet and be with each other. Hopefully we can get updates to see how their families all come together. Because I believe everyone who has watched and will watch this has welcomed them into our own families. Plus Ben is absolutely hilarious and I can't wait to see more of him with his beautiful sisters.

Oh I loved this one!!!!!!

HAPPY Birthday 🎉🎂 to you all and many more.

I think they should sew the Government for the great loss of family time they lost and can never regain!