Where the Spirit Lives
en
PG-13
6.2
June 1990
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. 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.
Runtime:
1 hour 36 minutes
Status:
Released
Original Language:
en
Budget:
N/A
Revenue:
N/A
Director:
Bruce Pittman