Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
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.
Where the Spirit LivesDrama
Cast
- Michelle St. John — Komi / Amelia
- Kim Bruisedhead Fox — Anataki
- Marianne Jones — Komi's Mother
- Gus Chief Moon — Ka - moos - ee
- Clayton Julian — Pita / Abraham
- Margaret Cozry — Grandmother
- Marge Fox — Anataki's Mother
- Ann-Marie MacDonald — Kathleen
- Sean Mulcahy — Priest
- Sam Malkin — Mr. Crawford
- Doris Petrie — Miss Weir
- Chapelle Jaffe — Miss Appleby
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