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.

Director

Bruce Pittman

Writer

Keith Ross Leckie

Released

June 6, 1990

Language

English