Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
1990 · PG · 1h 36m · Drama
Genres: Drama
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.
Director: Bruce Pittman
Writers: Keith Ross Leckie
Music by: Buffy Sainte-Marie
Cinematography: Rene Ohashi
Editor: Michael Todd
Cast
Michelle St. John as Komi / AmeliaKim Bruisedhead Fox as AnatakiMarianne Jones as Komi's MotherGus Chief Moon as Ka - moos - eeClayton Julian as Pita / AbrahamMargaret Cozry as GrandmotherMarge Fox as Anataki's MotherAnn-Marie MacDonald as KathleenSean Mulcahy as PriestSam Malkin as Mr. CrawfordDoris Petrie as Miss WeirChapelle Jaffe as Miss ApplebyMore like this
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