Where the Spirit Lives

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.

Genre:

Drama

Duration:

96 min

Actor:

Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones

Quality:

HD

Director:

Bruce Pittman

Release:

1990

Country:

Canada

IMDb:

6.2