
Where the Spirit Lives
A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...
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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- English
- canada
- boarding school
- native american
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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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