Listen to the Debut EP 'Wild Whisper' • https://jayliwolf.lnk.to/wildwhisper Directed & Produced by Jayli Wolf From the 1950s into the 1990s the Canadian Government & the Catholic Church were responsible for taking, or “scooping” more than 20,000 First Nation, Métis, and Inuit children from their families and communities; known as The Sixties Scoop. They were placed in foster homes or adopted (accounts of children even being sold) into non-Indigenous families across Canada, the United States, & beyond. Along with the loss of cultural identity, the government went so far as to change some children’s true ethnicity on file. Many experienced severe sexual, physical, and emotional abuse. Jayli’s father was one of these children. Credits • • • • • Directed by Jayli Wolf Produced by Jayli Wolf DOP/Editor/Colorist Hayden Wolf Stylist/MUA/Hair Poinsetta Lane Cast • • • • • Jayli Wolf • As Herself Mitch Loberg • Father Nathan Shlakoff • Father (Child) Nevaeh Samuels • Father (New Born) Rose Samuels • Grandmother (Teen) Nikita Shlakoff • Grandmother (Child) Mary Samuels Mund • Grandmother Violet Clarke • Nun #1 Kelli Smith • Nun #2 Gary Deatherage • Priest Chris Olsen • Foster Parent Jesse Bourgeois • Street Guy #1 Jake Brunetti • Street Guy #2 Bree Miller • River Child #1 Danielle Basil • River Child #2 Logan Loftus • River Child #3 #60sScoop #SixtiesScoop #Indigenous • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Follow Jayli Wolf: Website: https://www.jayliwolf.com Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jayliwolf TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jayliwolf Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jayliwolfmusic Twitter: https://twitter.com/jayliwolf • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • © ℗ ALT EDEN Licensing & Sync contact: altedencreative@gmail.com • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Lyrics • • • • • “Oh hey uh, just uh, I was just gonna, tell you that, uh, well I guess I got no one to talk to really” Father Youngblood took the children down To the water with the cross and the bible They were taught to pray but they left their hands up high Grandma was young when the baby came and She was locked up in a white room raining Nuns held the key while they made her sign her name They took my daddy away My father’s blood is mine His story beats inside me And now I share it here with you He’s a child of the government Mixed up the bloodline, lost to his people Broken and cursed, wrapped him in evil Smile for the priest now, God save the banknote This is a song about a child of the government Cuts and bruises Drugs, an alcoholic I just saw my father And he fell down Now he’s empty calling Hands in ring, he’s all in Toothless fighter makes me cry Yeah he’s a child of the government My father’s blood is mine His story beats inside me And now I share it here with you Yeah he’s a child of the government I won’t wear a cross I won’t say his name I won’t kneel down in dirty water I won’t pray lies And I’ve been baptized What doesn’t kill you makes you a monster “There’s a lot of things that the government blacked out, but, you know no matter what happened, I’m really grateful for you in my life, cuz it’s been difficult, um and I guess I passed a lot of that on to you, and uh you know we’re doing the best we can and life’s awesome”

• published: 30 Mar 2021
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