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Where the Spirit Lives (1990)

Directed by Bruce Pittman

Overview

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.

Rated PG | Length 96 minutes

Actors

Graham Greene | David Hemblen | Ron White | Chapelle Jaffe | Ann-Marie MacDonald | Sam Malkin | John Friesen | Michelle St. John | Marianne Jones | Barbara Wheeldon | Sean Mulcahy | Patricia Collins | Heather Hess | Tina Louise Bomberry | Doris Petrie | Sarah Williams | Kim Bruisedhead Fox | Gus Chief Moon | Clayton Julian | Margaret Cozry | Marge Fox | Cynthia Debassige | Franklin Doss | Darlene Shilling | Margaret Martin | Rudy Medicine Crane