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Pam Botterill joins Cindy Thompson on A Resilience Project to share what she calls a good-news story of adoption. An Indigenous woman from the Wei Wai Kum First Nation in Campbell River, BC, Pam was adopted at nine months old and raised by a non-Indigenous family in Powell River, BC.

In this episode, Pam reflects on the unexpected threads connecting the Celtic music of her upbringing to the drumming traditions of her Indigenous roots, finding a common rhythm between the two worlds she belongs to. She shares the emotional experience of meeting her biological mother and siblings for the first time, and how that reunion deepened her understanding of family and identity.

Pam’s story is, at its heart, about belonging - belonging to a family, a culture, and a community. That sense of belonging carried her through her battle with cancer, where the people around her became a source of strength and resilience.

We invite you to listen to this conversation about identity, reconnection, and the many forms belonging can take.

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