Where the Spirit Lives

(1990)

★ 6.2 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1990

Runtime: 96 мин

Country: Canada

Director: Bruce Pittman

Cast: Michelle St. John, Kim Bruisedhead Fox, Marianne Jones, Gus Chief Moon, Clayton Julian, Margaret Cozry, Marge Fox, Ann-Marie MacDonald, Sean Mulcahy, Сэм Малкин

Plot

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.