Where the Spirit Lives (1990)

Name: Where the Spirit Lives
Genre: Drama
Released: 1990-06-06
Duration: 1 hr 36 min
Rating: 62
Cast: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon, Clayton Julian

"A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit..."Movie

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StarringMichelle St. JohnKim Bruisedhead FoxMarianne Jones

DirectorBruce Pittman

WriterKeith Ross Leckie

PG 1 hr 36 minJun 6th, 1990Drama

Plot

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.

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