Recently we watched "Little Bird", a six-part Canadian drama series about Bezhig Little Bird, a woman forcibly removed from her Indigenous family in Saskatchewan as a child and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, being renamed in the process as Esther Rosenblum.
The series follows her journey in her twenties as she searches for her birth family and uncovers the truth about her past and the infamous “Sixties Scoop”, a period where Indigenous children were taken from their families. It explores themes of white supremacist ideas, identity, loss, and the impact of trauma on individuals and families.
Extremely powerful, the series explores the profound impact of trauma and loss on individuals and families during any colonialist abuse of power, while also highlighting themes of resilience and the enduring strength of family bonds. Shown only on PBS, this is one of the best series we’ve seen in a very long time.
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