A six-episode drama built around the Sixties Scoop, following one Indigenous woman's search for the family she was separated from as a child.
What is Little Bird about?
Little Bird centers on a woman navigating the long aftermath of Canada's Sixties Scoop, the decades-long practice of removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them with non-Indigenous households. Across six episodes, she pieces together fragments of a childhood she barely remembers, tracing threads back to the community and relatives she was taken from. The series moves between the present-day search and flashes of the past, letting the two timelines inform each other rather than treating the history as background texture. It is less interested in a tidy reunion than in the process itself: the paperwork, the false starts, the people who remember pieces of a story she does not. Directed by Jennifer Podemski, the show keeps its focus tight on one family's experience while gesturing at how widespread the Sixties Scoop was across a generation.
About the cast
Darla Contois carries the central role, with Lisa Edelstein, Ellyn Jade, Braeden Clarke, Imajyn Cardinal, Joshua Odjick, Eric Schweig, and Michelle Thrush rounding out the ensemble on both sides of the search.
Context & significance
The series is a Canada–United States co-production, and its subject matter draws directly on documented Canadian child-welfare history rather than a fictionalized stand-in for it. Jennifer Podemski, who directs, has built a career around Indigenous-led storytelling, and that perspective shapes how the show handles a period that is still within living memory for many families.
Watching Little Bird on Ktime
Little Bird streams on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles both available, so viewers can choose either option. The page is free to read without an account; watching the episodes themselves just needs a K-Time login. K-Time's Farsi-first interface is built for the diaspora audience, making it easy to browse and settle on a show like this one in a familiar layout.