Where the Spirit Lives
A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
1990 · 96 min · ★ 6.2 · Drama
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.
Directed by Bruce Pittman · Written by Keith Ross Leckie
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Michelle St. John Komi / Amelia - K Kim Bruisedhead Fox Anataki
- M Marianne Jones Komi's Mother
- G Gus Chief Moon Ka - moos - ee
- C Clayton Julian Pita / Abraham
- M Margaret Cozry Grandmother
- M Marge Fox Anataki's Mother
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Ann-Marie MacDonald Kathleen - S Sean Mulcahy Priest
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Sam Malkin Mr. Crawford -
Doris Petrie Miss Weir -
Chapelle Jaffe Miss Appleby
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