Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
"A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit..."
Drama
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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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Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
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Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
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Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
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Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
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Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
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Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
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Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
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Sean Mulcahy
Priest
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby
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Tina Louise Bomberry
Asst. Supervisor #2
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Barbara Wheeldon
Matron
John Friesen
Mr. Babcock