Bruce Pittman
Director
1h 36m
Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
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.60%
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
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
Extra
Release Date
June 6, 1990Original Language
EnglishBudget
$0.00Production Company
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