Michelle Good's Five Little Indians is a fictional look at the real Canadian legacy of residential schools.Released after years of detention, five teens find their way to the seedy and foreign world of Downtown Eastside Vancouver, where they cling together, striving to find a place of safety and belonging in a world that doesn't want them.įive Little Indians won the 2021 Amazon Canada First Novel Award and the 2020 Governor General's Literary Award for fiction. She has previously worked on series such as CBC's Coronerand Burden of Truth.įive Little Indians chronicles the quest of five residential school survivors to come to terms with their past and find a way forward. Shannon Masters, who is of Cree Métis and Ukrainian descent, will serve as writer and showrunner. Five Little Indians by Michelle Good has been optioned by Prospero Pictures to be adapted as a limited series.
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