Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
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.
Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby
John Friesen
Mr. BabcockRecommendations
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