(Where the Spirit Lives)

Content: 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.

Countries:

Canada

Genres:

Drama

Runtime:

96 minutes

Year:

1990

Directors:

Bruce Pittman

Production companies:

Atlantis Films,

CBC,

Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.

Actors:

Komi / Amelia

Anataki

Komi's Mother

Ka - moos - ee

Pita / Abraham

Crews:

Director

Writer

Music

Producer

Producer