Where the Spirit Lives
"A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit..."
Overview
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.
About Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
Where the Spirit Lives (1990) is a drama movie produced by Atlantis Films in Canada. It was directed by Bruce Pittman and written by Keith Ross Leckie. On screen you will see Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon and Clayton Julian. With a runtime of 1h 36m, the film averages 6.2/10 across 5 TMDB ratings.
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