Release Date

06 Jun, 1990

Runtime

01:36: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

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.

Original Title

Where the Spirit Lives

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Actors

Michelle St. John

Kim Bruisedhead Fox

Marianne Jones

Gus Chief Moon

Clayton Julian

Margaret Cozry

Marge Fox

Ann-Marie MacDonald

Sean Mulcahy

Sam Malkin

Doris Petrie

Chapelle Jaffe

Tina Louise Bomberry

Barbara Wheeldon

John Friesen

Heather Hess

Cynthia Debassige

Franklin Doss

Darlene Shilling

Margaret Martina

Sarah Williams

Crew

Bruce Pittman

Keith Ross Leckie

Buffy Sainte-Marie

Heather Haldane

Eric Jordan

Scott Shepherd

Paul Stephens

Mary Young Leckie

Arlene Berman

Valanne Ridgeway

Tim Bider

Jane Manchee

Sylvie Krasker

Nicole Demers