In 1968 Bezhig Little Bird was taken from her family. Now she questions her adoptive life.

Love is all Around Little Bird

Premiered October 12, 2023
Love is all Around

1968: On a summer day on the Long Pine Reserve in Saskatchewan, Bezhig Little Bird, her sister and brother are ripped away from their mother by police and child welfare agents to be put up for adoption. Now, 18 years later, Bezhig, who was renamed Esther Rosenblum by her adoptive family, is living as a Jewish woman in Montreal who doesn’t quite feel a sense of belonging in her comfortable life.

About the Program

Little Bird

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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