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Where the Spirit Lives

A MOVING TRIBUTE TO A YOUNG GIRL'S COURAGE AND INDOMITABLE SPIRIT...
6.2/10 1990 4K 96 min
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.

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Where the Spirit Lives
Top Cast
Michelle St. John
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
Marianne Jones
Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
Gus Chief Moon
Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
Clayton Julian
Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
Margaret Cozry
Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
Marge Fox
Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
Sean Mulcahy
Sean Mulcahy
Priest
Sam Malkin
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford

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