Where the Spirit Lives

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.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

June 6, 1990

Original language

English

Spoken languages

English

Production

CBC,Atlantis Films,Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.

Cast

Michelle St. John,Kim Bruisedhead Fox,Marianne Jones,Gus Chief Moon,Clayton Julian,Margaret Cozry,Marge Fox,Ann-Marie MacDonald,Sean Mulcahy,Sam Malkinand 16 more

Director

Bruce Pittman

Writer

Keith Ross Leckie

Producer

Eric Jordan,Heather Haldane,Paul Stephens,Scott Shepherd,Mary Young Leckie

Cinematography

Rene Ohashi

Music

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

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