Where the Spirit Lives

Where the Spirit Lives (1990)

6.2 96 min Movie
Drama

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

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 Michelle St. John Komi / Amelia
Kim Bruisedhead Fox Kim Bruisedhead Fox Anataki
Marianne Jones Marianne Jones Komi's Mother
Gus Chief Moon Gus Chief Moon Ka - moos - ee
Clayton Julian Clayton Julian Pita / Abraham
Margaret Cozry Margaret Cozry Grandmother
Marge Fox Marge Fox Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald Ann-Marie MacDonald Kathleen
Sean Mulcahy Sean Mulcahy Priest
Sam Malkin Sam Malkin Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie Doris Petrie Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe Chapelle Jaffe Miss Appleby

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