This six episode series chronicles the cruel treatment of indigenous children.
Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Jewish family at the age of five, being stripped of her identity and becoming Esther Rosenblum. Now in her 20s, Bezhig longs for the family she lost and to fill in the missing pieces. Her quest lands her in the Canadian prairies where she discovers that she was one of the generation of children forcibly apprehended by the Canadian government through a policy, later coined the 60s Scoop.—Happy_Evil_Dude
"...Between 1863 and the very near date of 1998, an estimated 150,000 First Nations children were separated from their families by Canadian Social Services based on an education policy that called into question the ability of parents to take care of them. But in reality it was a plan to eliminate the indigenous culture by forcing the "whitening" of the customs of some children who ended up being adopted by white families. It was a cultural genocide that also ended with the deaths of some 6,000 children in boarding schools run mainly by the Catholic Church. In 2020, at the Kamloops School, one of the largest centers for these purposes, a mass grave was found with the remains of 215 children. This problem is the basis of the series Little bird (Crave, 2023), a proposal that will raise controversy when it premieres in Canada and that has the participation in the production of the Canadian Jeremy Podeswa, director of series such as Station Once (HBO Max, 2022), The Handmaid's Tale (HBO Max, 2017-) or Boardwalk Empire (HBO Max, 2010-2014), among many others.
From the moment it is reminded at the beginning of the series that both in Canada and in the United States children from indigenous families have been systematically stolen for more than 200 years, we already know that it is going to be an especially difficult viewing. The period between the sixties and the eighties was called the "Sixties Scoop", and it is the one that is described in two time lines. The protagonist Bezhig "Little bird" (Darla Contois), celebrates her engagement party with her mother Golda Rosenblum (Lisa Edelstein), a Jewish woman who adopted her when she was little, but when she realizes that she is still despised by some members from the community, the need arises to know more about his original family. The plot alternates Bezhig's search for her roots with the story of how she was taken from her mother by the police and members of the social services, in particularly dramatic scenes. The series has been created by Jennifer Podemski, who in fact shares her Jewish and indigenous status with the protagonist..." Miguel A. Reina
