MATA Reports: Te Kākano - Closed Adoption

60-year-old closed adoptee Jenny Small is looking for her whakapapa. But the search to find her whānau is complex. It involves one of New Zealand's most notorious psychiatric institutions and a 68-year-old law that cut thousands of Māori off from their identity.

60-year-old closed adoptee Jenny Small is looking for her whakapapa. But the search to find her whānau is complex. It involves one of New Zealand's most notorious psychiatric institutions and a 68-year-old law that cut thousands of Māori off from their identity.

We'd like to advise listeners that this report contains traumatic accounts of minors kept in mental-health facilities.

Go to this episode on rnz.co.nz for more details