Where the Spirit Lives
"A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit..."
Overview
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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Details
| Status: | Released |
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| Release Date: | 1990-06-06 |
| Production: | Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd. |
