Where the Spirit Lives
“A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...”
1990•PG•1h 36m•6.2•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.
Director
Bruce Pittman
Writer
Keith Ross Leckie
Languages
English
Studio
Atlantis Films
Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
Sean Mulcahy
Priest
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby
Tina Louise Bomberry
Asst. Supervisor #2
Barbara Wheeldon
Matron
John Friesen
Mr. Babcock
Production
Company
Atlantis Films
Company
CBC
Company
Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
Producer
Heather Haldane
Producer
Eric Jordan
Producer
Scott Shepherd
Producer
Mary Young Leckie
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