Where the Spirit Lives
1990 · 96 min
Drama
★ 6.2In 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.
Crew
- Director Bruce Pittman
- Writer Keith Ross Leckie
- Director of Photography Rene Ohashi
Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
- K
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
- M
Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
- G
Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
- C
Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
- M
Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
- M
Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
- S
Sean Mulcahy
Priest
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby
Crew
- Director — Bruce Pittman
- Writer — Keith Ross Leckie
- Director of Photography — Rene Ohashi
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