'Little Bird' review: A powerful exploration of the 'Sixties Scoop' and Indigenous assimilation

The moral arc of the television universe is slow, sometimes very slow, but it bends toward representation. Series that put people of color at the center of the story, rather than as supporting players, are still relatively new to the medium, but it was not all that long ago that they didn't exist at all.

And no group was left longer at the gate than Indigenous North Americans, though they are knitted tightly into our national mythology, from Thanksgiving to Westerns to revisionist Westerns. What made "Reservation Dogs" feel like a small miracle — besides the fact that television is rarely that good — is that it told stories of ordinary lives from the