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Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) 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. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.
Updated May 29 2020
Cast
David Hemblen
Reverend Buckley
Ron White
Taggart
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
John Friesen
Mr. Babcock
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
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Crew
Rene Ohashi
Director of Photography
Bruce Pittman
Director
Arlene Berman
Casting
Scott Shepherd
Producer
Keith Ross Leckie
Writer
Eric Jordan
Producer
Paul Stephens
Executive Producer
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Music
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