Little Bird

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.

Heartbreaking series that was incredibly well done. There were many parts that were tough to watch but as a white member of a family who was given one of the sixty scoop children, it was important for me to not look away. I never got to meet my uncle as he followed a similar path to a main character in this story. This is a story that is still relevant today as there are more children being removed from their families than ever before. All Canadians should take this time to confront this dark side of Canadian history. I hope that this series touches the hearts of everyone who watches it as it did mind.

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 one this close to home. This show portrays what generations of Canadians have kept it quiet. The show is so well done and the acting is so good I found myself crying at how bad my country treated their natives.

I've never seen any of the actors on the show before and they are all insanely good. The story makes it justice and it's hard to see things that happen in history but it needs to be done.

I would recommend anyone, US and Canada mainly to show that our country isn't as great as we think it is.

It's so heartbreaking and so important to make history into shows because we need to learn from our mistakes .