Susan: A Story Rooted in Heritage
About this episode
Susan "Cricket" Fedorko shares her adoption journey and the discovery of her birth mother, Cathee Dahmen, a pioneering Native American supermodel.
Our current guest, Susan "Cricket" Fedorko, has spent decades sharing her adoption journey through writing and media, including the remarkable discovery at age 40 that her birth mother was pioneering Native American supermodel Cathee Dahmen. An enrolled member of the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa (Ojibwe), Susan has now been reunited with her biological family for 24 years and continues to use her voice to educate and advocate for adoptees.
People in this episode
Hosts: Louise Browne, Sarah Reinhardt
Guest: Susan "Cricket" Fedorko
Topics covered
- adoption
- heritage
- Native American culture
- family reunion
- advocacy
- personal journey
Keywords
- adoption
- heritage
- Native American
- family reunion
- advocacy
- personal story
- Chippewa
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Grand Portage Band of Chippewa
More episodes of Adoption: The Making of Me. An Oral History of Adoptee Stories
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- Christy: Where Healing Takes Root
- Patsy: Found by DNA, Silenced by Family
- Jackson: Between Two Worlds
- Anne-Grete: The Long Journey Home
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