Little Bird: 6 Part Screening & Sixties Scoop Discussion

Free Admission | Wed Nov 8, 15 & 22, 7:00 PM CST | Canada| 2023 | 96min | PG 13 | Directed by Hannah Moscovitch & Jennifer Podemski |

Join us to watch the award winning series addressing resilience and the legacy of the Sixties Scoop. Take the opportunity to hear from Sixties Scoop survivors sharing their stories.

Food, refreshment and counselling support provided. This program takes place in the RPL Film Theatre located in the lower level of Central Library. 

Open to the public and drop ins; register to receive a reminder. This is an in-person program.  Please, do not attend if you are not feeling well.

Nov 8

Episodes: Love is all Around and So Put Together

Sixties Scoop Survivor and Author

Sîpihkopiyesiw/Colleen Hele Cardinal is nehiyaw iskwew (Plains Cree) from Saddle Lake Cree Nation, AB but was adopted and raised in Sault Ste Marie ON. She is a community organizer, social justice advocate, student, author and kokum. Her work includes organizing six national 60s scoop gatherings in Ontario, raising the issue of the 60's scoop at an international level to the displacement and loss of identity survivors have experienced. Colleen also speaks publicly and candidly about MMIW2SG and the impacts of the 60’s Scoop drawing critical connections between colonial child welfare removal policies and her lived experiences and those of women in her family. Colleen continues to volunteer with several initiatives, including Families of Sisters in Spirit, Blackbird Medicines and the Nobel Women’s Initiative Sister to Sister Mentorship program to address gender-based violence, while giving context on the making of Canada, treaty relationships and the dehumanization of Indigenous people through policy and media. She is the author of the Ohpikiihaakan-ohpihmeh (Raised somewhere else): A 60s Scoop Adoptee’s Story of Coming Home as well as spear-heading the GIS mapping initiative Mapping the 60s Scoop Diaspora, and being awarded the Ontario Premier's Award for Outstanding Community Service. Currently Colleen is a Trauma Informed Resolution Health Support worker and Lead Facilitator for the Sixties Scoop Network.

Nov 15

Episodes: The Land that Takes you and Burning Down the House

Sixties Scoop Survivor

Ji-gaabiikwe/Diane Campeau Anishinaabe name meaning ‘Where the Land and Water Meet Woman.’ Her colonial name is Diane Campeau. She is a nakawe-iniikwe (Saulteaux woman), nêhiya-iskwe (Cree woman), and Metis woman and is a registered member of the Yellow Quill First Nation, a signatory of Treaty 4. She is a mother to her 15 year old, Kenadee. They are currently residing in Regina, Saskatchewan. Ji-gaabiikwe is a Sixties Scoop Survivor and an intergenerational residential school survivor. Reclaiming her cultural traditions is healing for her. She is rediscovering what it means to be an Anishinaabekwe, Indigenous woman. She is the founder of Moccasin Lodge a program within iEmergence. Moccasin Lodge is passionate about fostering pathways, cultivating relationships, and journeying alongside Indigenous youth, their families, and communities to empower, equip and engage them to rediscover their Creator-given identity and purpose utilizing a holistic Indigenous cultural framework.

Nov 22

Episodes: I Want My Mom and Bineshi Kwe

Sixties Scoop Survivor

Betty Ann Adam is a writer and an award-winning journalist. She is a member of Fond du Lac Denesuline Nation, an intergenerational survivor of the Indian Residential School system and a child of the Sixties Scoop.

She co-wrote, with director Tasha Hubbard, the National Film Board of Canada documentary, Birth of a Family, which recorded the first gathering of her siblings and herself, who were all taken in the Sixties Scoop.

Betty Ann’s feature article, Scooped: How I lost my mother, found my family and recovered my identity, won the 2018 Canadian Association of Journalists award for outstanding journalism in long text form. She has served with a non-profit organization that advocated for Scoop survivors and is executive producer of Everything Is Connected, a film about the overlap between Sixties Scoop and MMIWG. Betty Ann was a staff reporter with the Saskatoon StarPhoenix for 29 years. She was a reporter on the 2023 Pulitzer Prize winning podcast Stolen: Surviving St. Michael’s

Mental Health Support

Ceane Dusyk is a proud Metis who was born in Regina Saskatchewan. He has been a part of Regina public schools for 16 years and his current role is an Indigenous advocate. Culture is a very important part of his life, and he thrives on being a facilitator of cultural understanding to our youth and those who want to learn more.

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