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  • May 26, 2023
  • PBS
  • May 26, 2023
Little Bird

Summary Five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Montréal Jewish family and given the name Esther Rosenblum. In her 20s, her identity is shaken when she discovers she was one of many Native children forcibly removed through a government policy known as the Sixties Scoop in this limited series created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Mo...

  • PBS
  • May 26, 2023
  • PBS
  • May 26, 2023
Little Bird
Season 1
Season Premiere: May 26, 2023
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Summary Five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was adopted into a Montréal Jewish family and given the name Esther Rosenblum. In her 20s, her identity is shaken when she discovers she was one of many Native children forcibly removed through a government policy known as the Sixties Scoop in this limited series created by Jennifer Podemski and Hannah Mo...

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Episode 1 • May 26, 2023
Love is all Around
On a summer day in Saskatchewan, Bezhig Little Bird and her two sisters are ripped away from their mother by police and were put up for adoption. Years later Bezhig renamed as Esther Rosenblum by her adoptive family is living in Montreal.
Episode 2 • Jun 2, 2023
So Put Together
Esther finds her adoption paper and newspaper clippings that evokes funny memories of her young life before she was adopted. She uproots her life sacrificing everything in search of her family.
Episode 3 • Jun 9, 2023
The Land That Takes You
Patti Little Bird is desperate to bring her kids back but she doesn't know where they are taken. Eighteen years later Esther made her way back to prairies and is desperate to find her family.
Episode 4 • Jun 16, 2023
Burning Down the House
Esther returns to Montreal to tell her adoptive mother about her new revelations.
Episode 5 • Jun 23, 2023
I Want My Mom
When unexpected tragedy strikes Esther realizes that she needs her mother Golda, more than anyone else.
Episode 6 • Jun 30, 2023
Bineshi Kwe
Bird family comes together to mourn death and celebrate life. Esther and Golda are both changed from this journey of self discovery and has strengthened their bond as mother and Daughter which instilled a new sense of identity in Esther.

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80
Oct 16, 2023
The drama stays on the right side of melodrama; only a few minor characters approach caricature. Though the circumstances are tragic, and not everyone will make out well in the end, “Little Bird” is on the whole hopeful, more a story about human goodness than institutional arrogance.
By Robert Lloyd FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 16, 2023
The first episode of Little Bird progresses a bit slowly, but sets up a powerful story about an Indigenous woman who wants to find the family she was forcibly taken from when she was a child.
By Joel Keller FULL REVIEW
70
Oct 20, 2023
It’s a fascinating, previously unexplored (as far as I know) premise for a dramatic series (with a great theme song, “I Remember You (Hey, Little Bird)” by Buffy Sainte-Marie). But stretching the story over six overly long episodes does the show no favors as it veers between taut drama and occasional lapses into obvious, stereotypical heroes and villains.
By Rob Owen FULL REVIEW

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