Where the Spirit Lives
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) 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. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
Year: 1990
Genre: Drama
Studio: Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
Director: Bruce Pittman
Cast: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon, Clayton Julian, Margaret Cozry
Crew: Eric Jordan (Producer), Jane Manchee (Set Decoration), Nancy Harvey (Production Manager), Valanne Ridgeway (Production Design), Heather Haldane (Producer), Keith Ross Leckie (Writer)
Runtime: 96 minutes
Release: Jun 06, 1990
IMDb: 6.00/10 by 4 users
Popularity: 0
Country: Canada
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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