Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
- Released
- 1990-06-06
- Genres
- Drama
- Runtime
- 96 min
- Status
- Released
- Directed / written by
- Bruce Pittman
- TMDB rating
- 6.2/10 from 5 votes
Cast
- Michelle St. John as Komi / Amelia
- Kim Bruisedhead Fox as Anataki
- Marianne Jones as Komi's Mother
- Gus Chief Moon as Ka - moos - ee
- Clayton Julian as Pita / Abraham
- Margaret Cozry as Grandmother
- Marge Fox as Anataki's Mother
- Ann-Marie MacDonald as Kathleen
- Sean Mulcahy as Priest
- Sam Malkin as Mr. Crawford
- Doris Petrie as Miss Weir
- Chapelle Jaffe as Miss Appleby