A six-part Indigenous-led collection, known as “Little Bird,” will premiere on PBS Oct. 12.
The collection follows Bezhig Little Bird (Darla Contois, who’s Cree-Saulteaux) as she tries to search out her delivery household and study her true household historical past. Taken from her home within the Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan, Little Bird was adopted to a Canadian Jewish household at age 5 and have become Esther Rosenblum. As she got here of age, Little Bird adopted the thriller behind her adoption and traced her historical past to a Canadian authorities coverage now often known as the Sixties Scoop. A phrase coined by author Patrick Johnston, Sixties Scoop refers back to the mass elimination of Indigenous kids from their households into the kid welfare system.
The collection explores themes of resilience, trauma, loss and id and incorporates a forged of Indigenous actors, together with Ellyn Jade, Osawa Muskwa, Joshua Odjick, Imajyn Cardinal, Braeden Clarke, Eric Schweig and Michelle Thrush.
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PBS will even broadcast and stream “Coming Home,” a 90-minute companion documentary detailing historic context across the Sixties Scoop on Oct. 12 at 8 p.m. Mountain Time. The documentary explores connections between the motion for Indigenous sovereignty and the affect of the kid welfare system.
