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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]

Coming Home | movie | 2023 | Official Trailer

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