Where the Spirit Lives
A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
6.2
5 votes
June 6, 1990
1h 36m
Drama
Overview
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.
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Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / AmeliaK
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
AnatakiM
Marianne Jones
Komi's MotherG
Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - eeC
Clayton Julian
Pita / AbrahamM
Margaret Cozry
GrandmotherM
Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald
KathleenS
Sean Mulcahy
Priest
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss ApplebyT
Tina Louise Bomberry
Asst. Supervisor #2B
Barbara Wheeldon
Matron
John Friesen
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