Shalyce Parashonts always wanted to find her birth mother's family and she finally reconnected with the Ucluelet First Nation of British Columbia on Father's Day.

Parashonts, now 21, was adopted by a family from the Cedar Band of Paiutes in Utah. Her father is Travis Parashonts, a well-known tribal executive who accompanied Shalyce to the reserve in Canada last month.

"Shalyce said that she always wanted to find her mother and where she came from," Vi Mundy, whose late sister was Shalyce's birth mother, told The Westerly News.

"Her father only comes from a 260-member tribe," Mundy said. "He explained where they came from...and how his family raised her since she was only a few days old."

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Long lost relative found and celebrated (The Westerly News 7/1)