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Coming Home | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer
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10/16/2023
This documentary reveals the impacts of the Sixties Scoop, a period in which a series of Canadian policies enabled child | dG1fUHNlaTliUWljYjA
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00:00
(soft music)
00:02
(speaking in foreign language)
00:28
- A man and his wife, white people,
00:31
they were talking to my mom and dad.
00:33
And that man finally said,
00:36
"Would you like to come and live with us, little boy?"
00:39
He said.
00:40
- I was scooped out of Central Park at age five.
00:44
- Two of my cousins, they were picked up.
00:46
He took the door handles off from the inside.
00:49
So once he closed the door, the kids could open it.
00:51
- This is a special adoption program.
00:54
We have had great difficulty
00:55
in placing Indian and Métis children.
00:57
There was thousands of us taken across the country.
01:00
There's still thousands that are out there
01:01
in the world right now, lost.
01:04
- From the late 1950s to the mid 1980s,
01:07
tens of thousands of indigenous kids
01:09
were removed from their families
01:11
and placed into white families.
01:13
This is what we'd refer to as the 60 scoop.
01:16
- Little Bird is a mini series about one woman's experience
01:23
after being abducted from her home in Saskatchewan
01:26
and being adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal.
01:29
- Today, the scene I will be playing
01:31
is the one when I get taken away from my mom
01:34
and I get put in the cop car.
01:36
- What is a nation without its children?
01:39
That's such a violent thing, you know?
01:41
- I don't think there's one indigenous family
01:43
that hasn't been impacted by residential school
01:46
or the child welfare system.
01:48
- I want people to know that it's still alive.
01:50
It's still happening.
01:52
- In the current system,
01:53
which I call the foster care scoop,
01:55
children are in foster care
01:56
and non-indigenous people are getting a lot of money
01:59
to take care of our children.
02:01
- I feel very honored to tell this story.
02:04
It's an offering to come together and heal.
02:07
- It is about coming home.
02:09
It's about welcoming those who were taken.
02:11
And I think that this story in and of itself is about that.
02:14
It's about reclaiming everything that we are as a people.
02:18
(gentle music)
02:20
(gentle music)
02:23
(gentle music)
02:25
(gentle music)
02:28
(gentle music)
02:31
[BLANK_AUDIO]
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