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In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Through this epic journey of connection and self-discovery, Bezhig Little Bird begins to find her lost family and put the pieces of her fragmented past back together.

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Golda holds Esther outside

'Little Bird' Recap: Episode 6

Bezhig has her whole birth family and also her adoptive mother to help her mourn the loss of her twin brother.

Bezhig and Adele seen standing facing each other in an office through a window

'Little Bird' Recap: Episode 5

Feeling lost, Bezhig again confronts Adele in the hope of more information about her birth family, and sets off in search of her…

Brigit and Esther smile while looking at family photos

'Little Bird' Recap: Episode 4

Bezhig finds some of her birth family and learns the truth about her separation from them, then returns to her life in Montreal to…

Patricia and others sit in a court room

'Little Bird' Recap: Episode 3

Patricia irrevocably loses her children, setting up a life in which they eventually seek each other, years later. Esther finally tracks…
Bezhig in front of well-dressed adults, with a bow in her hair

'Little Bird' Recap: Episode 2

Bezhig tries to comfort her siblings as her mother runs into walls trying to win back her children. Eighteen years later, Esther…
Patricia grabs her daughter by the hand to run away from a woman and two policemen standing in front of a police car

'Little Bird' Recap: Episode 1

Bezhig Little Bird is forcibly removed from her parents on a First Nations reserve in Saskatchewan after officials determine her mother…