Little Bird

Thought Little Bird the best drama I have seen for ages. An horrific story that is beautifully acted and produced, with the inclusion of music from indigenous artists adding to the powerful reality. Coming from a country where the colonised indigenous people are still fighting for better health care, more educational opportunities and generally are less prosperous than the non-indigenous population, made this story more meaningful. The appalling treatment in Canada of the indigenous people is told here with balance and makes a real impact on one. I highly recommend this drama and praise the Producers, Directors and actors for their outstanding work.

This is a story that should be shown in High School. These poor communities having families ripped apart and their children kidnapped. I can't believe it took so long to be addressed by USA and Canada.

I'm a Canadian who was adopted through proper channels in the fifties as a baby. The First Nations children were forced to speak English and had to adapt to Christen ways. Even I know a lot of the story I still had many tissue moments and felt sick.

This was a fabulous series and I think it should be up for awards. The scenery, music and story were top notch . The clothing were on point for the time.

I don't think I rated any of the episodes above 8, but the whole package deserves an almost perfect score of 9 for me. Shows the pain we inflicted upon the native residents of 'our' countries*, without shoving inherited guilt in our faces. Made by and with natives who experienced the events depicted.

* (I say 'we/our' as many of the comments feel this is just about Canada - when we Americans did worse in almost every respect). As an evangelical Christian, I understand and support missionary activity. However, this could have (and nowadays is) done without force. Natives have much more respect for the Earth and we could certainly learn from that, among other things.

This story about Little Bird set at the background of what is called the Sixties Scoop. I didn't know what it was so I had to look it up. It is hard to believe this happened. Obviously, it is not a documentary but no one can deny this sort of thing happened. I found watching this to be so sad and infuriating that this has happened in a civilized society like Canada and America. Hard also to conceive that people would work for the government who advocates evil. We may think times have changed and we have improved but let's not fool ourselves. A lot of injustices still exists. Many people just turn the other way.

Great series. Cinematography was excellent.

An incredible series, told from the point of view of the oppressed rather than the other way around with a First Nations cast, direction and writing.

I was riveted from the first scene as it was so well written, cast and with marvelous cinematography.

I was in tears several times, following the story of a First Nations child, who, along with her siblings is taken to an orphanage, photographed for the newspapers as ready for adoption and then adopted by a Jewish family in Montreal.

In adulthood, she finally ascertains she is adopted and not Jewish and starts the long arduous task of tracking her birth parents.

My heart broke for her so many times as she hits so many barriers in her quest.

Nothing is Disneyfied, the acting is superb and the depiction of the elders is authentic in its execution.

I am surprised I didn't see any publicity about this as it deserves so much recognition and should be shown in colleges, schools and universities.

The narrow, bigoted focus of the cops and social workers was particularly harrowing. The grief of the parents almost unbearable.

10/10 from me.