Where the Spirit Lives

Year: 1989

Runtime: 96 mins

Language: English

Director: Bruce Pittman

Drama

A moving tribute to a young First Nations girl’s courage. In 1937, Ashtecome and other children are kidnapped under a Canadian policy to erase Indigenous culture. At a boarding school she faces brutal pressure to adopt Western ways and English. A sympathetic white teacher helps, and Ashtecome—renamed Amelia—holds fast to her identity and her siblings'.

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