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Where the Spirit Lives

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

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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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Language
English
  • canada
  • boarding school
  • native american

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Canada

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  • United StatesUS

    • TheatricalPG6 Jun 1990
  • CanadaCA

    • TVPG9 Sept 1989

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Where the Spirit Lives was released on 6 June 1990.

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