Where the Spirit Lives
06/06/1990
2h
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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.
Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
Sean Mulcahy
Priest
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
Doris Petrie
Miss Weir
Chapelle Jaffe
Miss Appleby
Tina Louise Bomberry
Asst. Supervisor #2
Barbara Wheeldon
Matron
John Friesen
Mr. Babcock
Heather Hess
Rachel
Cynthia Debassige
Esther
Franklin Doss
George
Darlene Shilling
Rose
Margaret Martina
Sarah
Sarah Williams
Ruth
Patricia Collins
Mrs. Barrington
Graham Greene
Komi's Father
Rudy Medicine Crane
Rachel's Mother
David Hemblen
Reverend Buckley
Ron White
Taggert
Sarah Williams
Ruth
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