Where the Spirit LivesMovie
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.
About Where the Spirit Lives
Where the Spirit Lives is a 1990 drama movie directed by Bruce Pittman.
The production information lists a runtime of 1h 36m, production credits from Canada, an original language code of EN.
The credited cast includes Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon. The synopsis above summarizes the central premise without adding details beyond the available title information.
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