Movie

Where the Spirit Lives

★ 6.2/10 · 5 votes 1990 1h 36m Released

Drama

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.

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