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