About

Sheryl Doherty was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada in the early 70s and adopted at ten months. She is Nehiyaw (Cree) and Irish and is part of the sixties scoop, a generation of Indigenous children who were taken just after birth and adopted out to non-Indigenous people for the purpose of assimilation. Sheryl was denied her Cree heritage and only began learning about Indigenous people when she entered post secondary education. This is where she learned about the harsh Canadian history of residential school, learned that her biological mother went to residential school, learned about the growing number of missing/ murdered Indigenous girls and women, and learned about the many environmental issues across Canada.