Where the Spirit Lives
movie
View on VideBits →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 & crew
Ann-Marie MacDonald · Clayton Julian · Gus Chief Moon · Kim Bruisedhead Fox · Margaret Cozry · Marge Fox · Marianne Jones · Michelle St. John · Sam Malkin · Sean Mulcahy · Bruce Pittman · Keith Ross Leckie