Where the Spirit Lives

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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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