Where the Spirit Lives
A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
1990 · 1h 36m
Drama
Directed by
Bruce Pittman
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.
Director and cast
- Bruce Pittman Director
- Michelle St. John as Komi / Amelia
- Kim Bruisedhead Fox as Anataki
- Marianne Jones as Komi's Mother
- Gus Chief Moon as Ka - moos - ee
- Clayton Julian as Pita / Abraham
- Margaret Cozry as Grandmother
- Marge Fox as Anataki's Mother
- Ann-Marie MacDonald as Kathleen
- Sean Mulcahy as Priest
- Sam Malkin as Mr. Crawford
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